Dynamic Phase Generation And Resource Load Reduction For A Query

ABSTRACT

Techniques are described for dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query. A query, for instance, is based on user input of a query in a natural language (NL) form, e.g., an NL query. Generally, an NL query may include multiple terms and/or phrases that make up a complex query, such as a sentence in a human-readable language. Accordingly, to enable a query result to be generated, the NL query is parsed into multiple logical sections and query contexts are determined for the logical sections. A set of search phases is generated based on the logical sections and the query contexts. The search phases can then be executed in a specific execution order to generate a query result for the NL query.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation-in-part and claims priority to U.S.patent application Ser. No. 16/791,469 entitled “Automated Summarizationof Extracted Insight Data” and filed 14 Feb. 2020, which in turn is acontinuation-in-part and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser.No. 16/425,686 entitled “Dynamic Playback Of Synchronized NarratedAnalytics Playlists” and filed 29 May 2019, which in turn is acontinuation-in-part and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser.No. 16/232,934 entitled “Leveraging Analytics Across Disparate ComputingDevices” and filed Dec. 26, 2018, which in turn claims priority underthe benefit of 35 U.S.C. § 119 to U.S. Provisional Application No.62/702,728, filed on Jul. 24, 2018, the disclosures of which areincorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

BACKGROUND

Today's connected environment provides users with access to massivecollections of data covering a wide variety of topics and subjectmatter. Navigating data collections to locate data of particularinterest, however, is extremely challenging. For instance, a typicalsearch of the Internet for a simple topic returns millions of searchresults. Further, many of the search results may only be tangentiallyrelevant to information that a user hopes to obtain via the search.Thus, a user is faced with the options of manually sorting through hugecollections of search results and/or performing multiple searches usingdifferent search terms and phrases to attempt to obtain data ofinterest. These options not only waste a user's time and lead to userfrustration, but also waste system resources utilized by the user, suchas client device resources, network resources, data source resources(e.g., cloud storage resources), and so forth. Thus, current electronicdata search methodologies are inefficient from user and system resourceperspectives.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

While the appended claims set forth the features of the presenttechniques with particularity, these techniques, together with theirobjects and advantages, may be best understood from the followingdetailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawingsof which:

FIG. 1 is an overview of a representative environment in which automatedgeneration of narrated analytics playlists can be utilized in accordancewith one or more implementations;

FIG. 2 illustrates an example environment in which cloud-based servicescan be used to provide features corresponding to the automatedgeneration of narrated analytics playlists in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 3 illustrates an example of generating a narrated analyticsplaylist in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 4 illustrates an example of augmenting a query with contextualparameters in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIGS. 5A-5C illustrate various example trigger events in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 6 illustrates generating drill path content in accordance with oneor more implementations;

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of user-defined customizations to apersonalized analytics system in accordance with one or moreimplementations;

FIGS. 8A and 8B illustrate an example of analytic assistance duringplayback of content in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 9 illustrates an example of capturing usage analytics with respectto a user profile in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 10 illustrates a flow diagram of accessing a personalized analyticssystem to obtain a narrated analytics playlist in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 11 illustrates an example personalized analytics system inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 12 illustrates an example curation engine module in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 13 illustrates an example parser module in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 14 illustrates an example query magnifier module in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 15 illustrates an example insight engine module in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 16 illustrates an example story narrator module in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 17 illustrates an example animator module in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 18 illustrates an example playback module in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 19 illustrates an example of a personalized analytics system inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIGS. 20A and 20B illustrate an example of a proximity platform inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 21 illustrates a flow diagram of generating a narrated analyticsplaylist in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 22 illustrates an example environment that illustrates aspects ofvoice control in a personalized analytics system in accordance with oneor more implementations;

FIG. 23 illustrates an example method that can be used to controlplayback using audible input in a personalized analytics system inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 24 illustrates an example environment in which aspects of lipsynching in a personalized analytics system can be utilized inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 25 illustrates example environments in which aspects ofauto-pointers can be utilized in a personalized analytics system inaccordance with one or more implementation;

FIG. 26 illustrates an example method that can be used to dynamicallygenerate lip synched content in accordance with one or moreimplementations;

FIG. 27 illustrates an example method that can be used to dynamicallyapply auto-pointers to content included in a narrated analytics playlistin accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 28 illustrates example environments in which a personalizedanalytics system utilizes images scanned from social media in accordancewith one or more implementations;

FIG. 29 illustrates example environments in which images can trigger thegeneration of a narrated analytics playlist in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 30 illustrates an example method which can be utilized toincorporate social media content into a narrated analytics playlist inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 31 illustrates example environments that illustrate features ofcalculating a playback duration for a narrated analytics playlist inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 32 illustrates an example method that can be utilized to determinea respective playback duration for a scene in a narrated analyticsplaylist in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 33 illustrates details concerning the headline module forgenerating headlines in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 34 illustrates a system that is operable to provide an overview oftechniques for automated summarization of extracted insight data inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 35 illustrates an example scenario for generating trigger eventsfor headlines in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 36 illustrates an example scenario for utilizing machine learningfor generating different types of data pertaining to headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 37 illustrates an example scenario for generating headlinecandidates for use in generating headlines in accordance with one ormore implementations;

FIG. 38 illustrates an example scenario for ranking headline candidatesin accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 39 illustrates an example scenario for deduplicating headlinecandidates in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 40 illustrates an example scenario depicting an example way forgenerating and comparing headlines IDs for headline deduplication inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 41A illustrates an example scenario for generating a narratedanalytics playlist including insight content and a headline inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 41B illustrates an example scenario for generating a headline basedon a narrated analytics playlist in accordance with one or moreimplementations;

FIG. 42 illustrates an example scenario for outputting headlinesincluded as part of narrated analytics playlists in accordance with oneor more implementations;

FIG. 43 illustrates an example implementation of a user interface fordisplaying headlines in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 44 illustrates an example implementation for outputting a narratedanalytics playlist in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 45 illustrates an example implementation of a metrics userinterface in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 46 illustrates an example implementation of a context userinterface in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 47 illustrates an example implementation of a trigger userinterface in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 48 illustrates an example method for generating headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 49 illustrates an example method for retrieving headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 50 illustrates an example method for ranking headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 51 illustrates an example method for identifying and removingduplicate headlines in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 52 illustrates an example method for avoiding presenting headlinesthat include insights that are likely well known in accordance with oneor more implementations;

FIG. 53 depicts an example system for implementing techniques fordynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query in accordancewith one or more implementations;

FIG. 54 depicts a system that is operable to provide an overview oftechniques for dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a querydescribed herein in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 55 depicts a system that is operable to generate a query result fora natural language query in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 56 depicts a scenario for outputting a query result in accordancewith one or more implementations;

FIG. 57 depicts a system that is operable to parse a natural languagequery into query sections and to generate query contexts in accordancewith one or more implementations;

FIG. 58 depicts a system for generating search phases based on querycontexts in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 59 depicts a system for executing search phases in accordance withone or more implementations;

FIG. 60 depicts a system for dynamically generating search phases inaccordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 61 depicts a system for generating feedback based on a naturallanguage query in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 62 illustrates an example method for dynamic phase generation andload reduction for a query in accordance with one or moreimplementations;

FIG. 63 illustrates an example method for adding a search phase to a setof search phases in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 64 illustrates an example method for generating feedback for anatural language query in accordance with one or more implementations;

FIG. 65 illustrates an example method for determining an unknown portionof a natural language query in accordance with one or moreimplementations;

FIG. 66 is an illustration of an example computing device in accordancewith one or more implementations; and

FIG. 67 is an illustration of an example server device in accordancewith one or more implementations.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Turning to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to likeelements, techniques of the present disclosure are illustrated as beingimplemented in a suitable environment. The following description isbased on embodiments of the claims and should not be taken as limitingthe claims with regard to alternative embodiments that are notexplicitly described herein.

The interconnectivity of computing devices helps organizations shareinformation acquired at one computing device with other computingdevices in the organization. This advantageously enables users to makeinformed decisions through the use of current and shared data that wouldotherwise be difficult for one person to accumulate and maintain.However, processing large quantities of data across an organizationposes certain challenges. For example, having multiple sources of dataoftentimes corresponds to the data being acquired in multiple formats,such as each source providing the respective data in a respective formatthat is from data originating from other sources. To illustrate a firstdata source may correspond to geospatial data, a second data source maycorrespond to unstructured text data, a third data source may correspondto social media data, a fourth data source may correspond to log files,etc. In some scenarios, the different data formats are incompatible,thus necessitating either a conversion of the data into a common dataformat and/or employing additional data processing techniques.Processing data from different sources can be cumbersome andtime-consuming to a user such that by the time the data is processed inits entirety, the data is out-of-date and/or invalid. To illustrate,consider computer-based data sources that capture millions of events persecond (e.g., constantly changing business information, data exchangesbetween devices, real-time data logs, etc.). The volume of this datacoupled with a user manually converting the various data formats becomesa formidable problem. As another example, consider non-traditionaldatabases that can be accessed, such as databases configured to addresslarge amounts of structured and unstructured data. These types ofnon-traditional databases can accommodate large amounts of data that areless predictable in structure/formatting (e.g., inconsistent datastructures), thus complicating how data is accessed and processed.

Computer-based data sources further compound this issue by capturing notonly a data point and/or event, but additional characteristics about thedata point, such as number-based characteristics, string-basedcharacteristics, date-based characteristics, time-based characteristics,location-based characteristics, etc. In various scenarios, thecharacteristics are expressed in different formats from one another.Accordingly, the volume of data accumulated by an organization fromvarying computer-based data sources, the speed at which thecomputer-based data is accumulated, as well as the differing formats inwhich the data can be stored, makes extracting accurate, current, andreliable insights from the data manually by a user insurmountable anddifficult.

Techniques described herein provide automated generation of a narratedanalytics playlist. Various implementations curate data from multipledata sources, where curating the data includes identifying attributesand relational data models. One or more implementations base thecurating upon anecdotal data associated with a user. In response toreceiving a trigger event to perform a query analysis, one or moreimplementations identify keywords to use in the query analysis, andextract information from the curated data based, at least in part on theone or more keywords. The extracted information is then analyzed toidentify insights. In turn, one or more implementations generate anarrated analytics playlist using the insights. Some implementationsutilize machine-learning algorithms to curate, extract and/or processdata to generate insights. Various implementations abstract the dataused to teach the machine-learning algorithms and share the abstracteddata to other devices.

Various implementations modify playback of a narrated analytics playlistin a personalized analytics system. In some implementations, audibleinput is received during playback of the narrated analytics playlist.The audible input can be used to control the behavior of a playbackmodule playing out the narrated analytics playlist. Alternately oradditionally, user input can be received, where the user inputcorresponds to modifying an original scene included in the narratedanalytics playlist. Some implementations generate synchronized audibleoutput that be output with the modified original scene of the narratedanalytics playlist. Alternately or additional, implementations canautomatically determine to visually apply an auto-pointer to portions ofthe narrated analytics playlist. In generating the narrated analyticsplaylist, implementations can calculate a respective playback durationof each scene in a plurality of scenes to include in the narratedanalytics playlist, and generate the narrated analytics playlist basedon the calculating.

Techniques are also described for automated summarization of extractedinsight data. Such summarizations are referred to herein as “headlines”that present an overview of available instances of insights, such as viatext, images, animations, and so forth. In at least one implementation,headlines can be generated to summarize narrated analytics playliststhat are available for output to a user. By way of example, curated datais generated for different users, such as based on anecdotal data thatdescribes user attributes and behaviors. The curated data can then beanalyzed using different criteria to identify insight data thatcorresponds to the criteria. Some criteria, for example, are based onperformance metrics of interest to a user, examples of which arepresented in detail below. Thus, by applying the various criteria,different distinct instances of insights can be identified from largesets of curated data. Summarization data can then be generated for eachinsight instance to provide a headline for each insight. In at least oneimplementation, insights and/or headlines can be generated in responseto different trigger events, such as events created based on explicituser input and/or implied from user behaviors and/or system-relatedevents. Headlines may then be output, such as in a headline section of agraphical user interface. A user may interact with a headline to causeoutput of corresponding insight data, such as a narrated analyticsplaylist generated based on the insight data.

Various implementations may also curate headlines, such as by rankingheadlines and removing duplicate headlines. For instance, after a set ofheadlines are generated, the headlines may be ranked based on theirrelative correspondence to and/or impact on a metric of interest, suchas different Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Thus, those headlineswith greater impact may be ranked highest and thus presented beforelower ranked headlines to enable users to identify headlines that may beof greater value to particular tasks and/or goals. Further, headlinesmay be compared to one another to identify headlines that include and/orpertain to duplicate subject matter. Where duplicate headlines areidentified, a duplicate headline can be removed to avoid presentingduplicate content to a user. Still further, headlines that correspond tocommonly known insights can be filtered out to avoid presenting userswith information that is widely known and thus likely to be of littleinterest to a user.

Accordingly, the techniques described herein provide a significantimprovement over conventional techniques for generating headlines. Forinstance, some traditional techniques employed to generate headlines areantiquated and rely on individual users to manually create headlinecaptions for broad consumption by large demographics of users. Suchtraditional mechanisms generate headlines that do not provide insight ormeaning that users seek. Furthermore, most of the traditionaltechnologies merely draw data from known sources and try to re-presentsuch information to a user. However, there is an absence of insights andmeaning associated with the data and a user will be simply presentedwith event data that is not tied to insights generated specifically forthe user. Thus, conventional techniques are system resource intensiveand often require user supervision to generate headlines. In contrast,techniques described herein reduce the burden on system resourcesrequired to generate headlines, such as network, processor, and memoryresources. For instance, by utilizing user-specific attributes (e.g.,metrics of interest) to generate insight data for generating headlines,the described techniques provide user targeted headlines and avoidspresenting superfluous headlines that may be of little or no interest.Further, by filtering out duplicate and commonly known headlines, systemresources used to manage and present such headlines are conserved. Thus,by conserving such resources, the resources can be made available toother system tasks, which improves system performance.

Techniques are also described for dynamic phase generation and loadreduction for a query. A query, for instance, is based on user input ofa query in a natural language (NL) form, e.g., an NL query. Generally,an NL query may include multiple terms and/or phrases that make up acomplex query, such as a sentence in a human-readable language.Accordingly, to enable a query result to be generated, the NL query isparsed into multiple logical sections that each represent portions ofthe NL query, such as terms, phrases, tokens, and so forth. A set ofquery contexts are then determined for the multiple logical sections. Aquery context, for example, represents a type of data requested by aparticular logical section of an NL query and/or a criteria to be usedfor generating a search phase based on the particular logical section. Awide variety of different types of query contexts are enabled such asfor complex data aggregation, sorting, filtering, and so forth, as partof generating a query response for an NL query.

Based on the logical sections and the query contexts determined from thelogical sections, a set of search phases are generated that areexecutable to determine a query result for the NL query. Generally, asearch phase represents an individual subquery that is individuallyexecutable to generate subquery result (a “phase result”) thatcontributes along with other phase results to generating an overallquery result. For instance, for a particular set of search phasesgenerated for an NL query, a first search phase can search a data sourceto extract a particular set of data (e.g., utilizing a database querysuch as a structured query language (SQL) database query), a secondsearch phase can perform a first type of processing on the extracteddata to generate processed data, and a third search phase can performfurther processing on the processed data to generate a search result forthe NL query. Thus, search phases can utilize a variety of differentdata sources to enable for a wide variety of different complex searchesto be accommodated, such as local data sources, remote data sources,output from other search phases, etc. The search result can then beinterpreted into a query result for output, such as by aggregatingvarious types of data (text strings, images, charts, video, etc.) thatconvey the search result in a human-understandable form.

Generally, by enabling multiple search phases to be generated for aquery, complex queries can be characterized as sets of individuallyexecutable subqueries that each have their own respective data sourceand data handling criteria. This enables techniques described herein tohandle complex queries that conventional search techniques are unable tounderstand and execute. Further, by dynamically and automaticallygenerating and executing search phases for a query, the describedtechniques conserve user and system resources that are typically wastedby conventional search techniques. For instance, complex searchesutilizing conventional search techniques put excess computational loadon search resources (e.g., databases), and thus the techniques describesherein can reduce this load on such resources.

Consider now an example environment in which various aspects asdescribed herein can be employed.

Example Environment

FIG. 1 illustrates an example environment 100 that includes an examplesystem that can be used to implement automated summarization ofextracted insight data in accordance with one or more implementations.Environment 100 includes server(s) 102 and computing device 104 that, inconcert, provide personalized analytics directed towards a particularuser profile and/or workspace, such as a narrated analytics playlist.While computing device 104 is illustrated here as a desktop computingdevice, any other suitable type of computing device can be utilized,such as a mobile phone, a tablet, a laptop, a smart watch, and so forth.Here, the terminology “personalized analytics” is used to denote outputinformation that is generated from a combination of input data and userinformation. For example, the personalized analytics can include varioustypes of output information (e.g., text, charts, graphs, tables,narrated text, narrated audio, animated video, podcasts, playlists withaudio, slides, and so forth) that are based upon user anecdotal data,user preferences, user calendar information, user-defined schedules,etc.

Servers 102 include personalized analytics module 106 that acquiresdata, processes the data to curate the acquired data, generates queriesfor various types of analytics, generates video playlists, generates anatural language narration for the playlists, determines what analyticsto include within the playlist, and so forth. Computing device 104includes client analytics module 108 to access personalized analyticsmodule 106 and/or various features provided by the personalizedanalytics module 106. Generally, the term module is used to denote anycombination of software, hardware, and/or firmware that can beconfigured to provide the corresponding functionality such thatpersonalized analytics module 106 and/or client analytics module 108 canbe implemented using any of these combinations. In variousimplementations, client analytics module 108 corresponds to a clientapplication that renders a user interface on a corresponding displaydevice of computing device 104, and communicates over a network to aserver application, such as personalized analytics module 106.Alternately or additionally, client analytics module 108 represents astand-alone application that includes the functionality of personalizedanalytics module 106 onto a same device. In one or more implementations,servers 102 represents server(s) that distribute various aspects of thepersonalized analytics module across the multiple devices and/or providecloud-based services to multiple client devices. Utilizing cloud-basedservices to deploy narrated analytic playlists and/or the generation ofnarrated analytic playlists provides a user with on-demand self-serviceaccess to the personalized analytics system, broad network access to thepersonalized analytics system, resource pooling across the cloud, rapidelasticity and/or adaptiveness to a user's changing operatingenvironment, and measured service.

Here, the phrase “cloud-based services” is used to generally to denoteany suitable type of cloud-based service and/or deployment mechanismacross a network, such as cloud-based services that follow, by way ofexample and not of limitation, a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, aPlatform as a Service (PaaS) model, an Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) model, and so forth. Accordingly, the various implementationsdescribed herein can be deployed and/or implemented using any one orcombination of these models to provide various aspects of narratedanalytic playlists. As an example, various implementations can deploynarrated analytics playlists and/or the generation of narrated analyticplaylists using a private cloud that is specific to an organization, acommunity cloud that is shared across several organizations, a publiccloud that is available to the general public, a hybrid cloud that is acomposition of different cloud models to enable data and applicationportability, and so forth. In some scenarios, the differing cloud-basedservices utilize different types of stack architectures that employmultiple interconnected layers (e.g., application layers, networkinglayers, workload layers, hardware layers, software layers, managementlayers, virtualization layers, etc.). Various implementations canintegrate aspects of the personalized analytics system into any oneand/or combination of layers utilized by the cloud-based services. Toillustrate, one or more of the various components and/or modules furtherdescribed herein can be communicatively coupled to a workload layer of acloud computing environment to distribute the corresponding processing,such as transaction processing, software development, data analyticsprocessing, mapping processing, navigation processing, etc.

Personalized analytics module 106 includes curation engine module 110,parser module 112, query magnifier module 114, insight engine module116, story narrator module 118, animator module 120, and proximityplatform module 122 that work in concert to provide personalizedanalytics in accordance with one or more implementations. Somecombinations of these modules communicate with one another to exchangeinformation, such as by defining data structures according to a set ofrules to provide a mechanism for cross-entity data sharing, as well aspredictable and repeatable processing by the different entities, toachieve expected results. For example, the set of rules can outline whattype of information the data included in the data structure describes,an amount of data stored within the data structure, a format in whichthe data is stored within the data structure and so forth. By followingthese rules, a first entity can create and store a data structure suchthat a second entity can successfully access and interpret the dataincluded in the data structure. A data structure can include anysuitable type of structure in which data can be stored, defined, and/orretrieved, such as an array, a string, a container, a list, a stack, aqueue, a tree, a graph, a heap, a bit field, a bitmap, an object, amatrix, a linked-list, function parameters, a file, and so forth.Alternately or additionally, other rules can be employed that define abehavior of the personalized analytics module, such as rules thatdetermine a prioritization of the data sources used to acquire curateddata, rules that determine data manipulation based on a desiredoperation, condition-based rules, validation-based rules, mapping rulesthat can be used to translate a first data structure to a second datastructure, and so forth.

Curation engine module 110 acquires information about data, such asvarious attributes associated with the data, and generates metadata toretain and describe the acquired attributes and/or information. Anysuitable type of data can be analyzed by curation engine module 110,such as user calendars, organization databases, user workspaces, podcastinteractions, video interactions, user interface interactions, queries,enterprise data, enterprise applications, existing reports, useractivities, user preferences, user dislikes, and so forth. Accordingly,servers 102 includes databases 124 to generally represent any suitablesource of data and/or information. Alternately or additionally,databases 124 represent storage for data generated by the personalizedanalytics module, such as curated data. Some implementations trigger thecuration and/or acquisition of the information based upon a user query,a scheduled query, an automated query, a calendar item identified duringa scheduled query, an identified idle period, and so forth. Toillustrate, a user query pertains to an explicit input query entered atan interface of the personalized analytics system, such as through atext box. A scheduled query pertains to a scheduled and/or delayed querythat triggers queries based on a schedule, either as a one-time query, aperiodic-query, and so forth. An automated query pertains to a querythat is triggered by the personalized analytics module identifying anevent and/or without an explicit input associated with a query, such asa query triggered on a scan of a calendar event, keyword identificationfrom communication content (e.g., email, text messages, instantmessages, etc.), and so forth. Accordingly, data curation can betriggered in multiple different ways. The curation of data canalternately or additionally include generating drill path content. Here,drill path content corresponds to additional and/or secondaryinformation associated with the primary topic of the data being curated,such as time-based information, location-based information,product-based information, etc. Accordingly, a drill-up path correspondsto a higher-level perspective of the primary topic associated with thedata, such as comparison charts with associated sibling topics, toprovide contextual information about the primary topic. A drill-downpath corresponds to a lower-level/additional detailed information aboutthe primary topic, such as specific points in time, location,demographics, etc.

As part of the curation process, some implementations identifyadditional and/or similar vocabulary associated with curatedinformation, such as alternate wording that corresponds to the primarytopic being curated. The alternate wording can then be used to acquireadditional information that is then included and/or referenced in themetadata. In various scenarios, curation engine module 110 curates databy applying machine learning algorithms, data mining algorithms, and/orPrincipal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithms to identify datarelationships between the acquired and/or curated data. For example, thecuration engine module 110 can utilize machine-learning algorithmsand/or portions of machine-learning algorithms to label sets of data,compare sets of data for similarities, group sets of data based on thesimilarities, and so forth. To illustrate, some implementations utilizesimilarity comparison algorithms to compare similarity scores betweenvarious subsets of data. However, it is to be appreciated that alternateor additional algorithms can be utilized as well, such as those furtherdescribed herein with respect to at least the insight engine module1114.

In various implementations, the curation engine module 110 employs aniterative process to curate the data. Over-time, as more data is curatedand analyzed, the iterative process updates corresponding metadata, datamodels, drill-down activities, and so forth, generated by the curationengine module 110, such as improved relevancy metric of the associateddata, improving relational data, etc. In turn, these updates make dataextraction, data access, and/or data analysis associated with thecurated data more efficient relative to earlier versions of the curateddata, thus improving the system's overall operation (e.g., fasteraccess, more accurate data extraction, faster data analysis, etc.).Accordingly, various implementations of the curation engine module 110update the curated data and/or the corresponding metadata to reflectvarious findings from iterative analyses. In some implementations, thecuration engine module 110 generates relational data models based on thecurated data, and then stores the curated data in a database, such as indatabases 124, according to the relational data models. Alternately oradditionally, the curation engine module 110 utilizes machine-learningalgorithms to identify what data sets are accessed and/or utilized morerelative to other data sets, and prioritizes the data sets based uponthe respective usage. In turn, the curation engine module 110 uses thisprioritization to govern how the data sets are updated, such as byupdating the higher priority data sets more frequently relative to otherdata sets, updating the higher priority data sets ahead of other datasets, updating the curated data based upon a prioritization of thedatabases and/or data sources, etc. This can improve how a correspondingcomputing device performs by updating the curated data that is utilizedmore, rather than adding a latency by updating less used and/or obscuredata.

Parser module 112 receives an input query, and analyzes the input queryto identify keywords and/or context information associated with thequery. In various implementations, the parser module analyzes an inputstring associated with the input query to generate a canonical query(e.g., a query that includes identifying information, such as tags,keyword identification information, etc.). For example, the parsermodule can tag and tokenize the input string as further describedherein.

Query magnifier module 114 receives the canonical query, and augmentsthe query with supplemental information, alternate wording, and/oradditional query subject matter. For instance, in some implementations,the query magnifier module generates multiple versions of the inputquery that reflect variations of a particular keyword, include userpreferences, add related subject matter, additional context parameters,and so forth, to use to extract information from the curated data. Toillustrate, consider a scenario in which a user manually submits aninput query string to the personalized analytics system. In turn, thequery magnifier module generates variations of the query, such asqueries with alternate keywords, queries with related topics, querieswith time constraints, etc., that can be utilized to extract informationfrom the curated data. This can include using anecdotal data associatedwith a user profile to generate the variations of the query.

Insight engine module 116 uses the various queries generated by thequery magnifier module to extract curated information. The insightengine module then analyzes the extracted data to identify insightsrelevant to a particular user profile, organization profile, and/soforth. This can include utilizing machine-learning algorithms to makepredictions from the extracted data, identify trends, identify patterns,generate insights from the trends and/or patterns, and so forth. Here,an insight pertains to factual information identified from the data(e.g., plain inferences of the data for a particular need) and/orinferred information identified from the data (e.g., outliers,anomalies, trends, indicators, market segmentations, etc.). As oneexample, consider a scenario in which the answer to an input query of“what did orange juice sales do this month” is “sales for orange juicewent down”. An example insight generated by the personalized analyticssystem extrapolates on that input query by providing factual informationthat can provide more context about the result, such as “apple juicesales doubled over the same time period” or “the highest orange juicesales occurred in Alaska”. Various implementations of the insight enginemodule apply machine-learning algorithms and/or models to determine theinsights and/or combine the results of multiple data extractions intoinsights that are used as a basis for generating a narrated analyticsplaylist. This can include using and adjusting hyper-parametersassociated with the machine-learning algorithms, such as that furtherdescribed herein with respect to at least FIG. 15.

Story narrator module 118 receives an output from the insight enginemodule 116, and determines how to describe and/or articulate the output.As one example, in response to receiving an insight from the insightengine that corresponds to chartable data, story narrator module 118determines to include a chart and a descriptive narrative of the chartwithin the narrated analytics playlist. In various scenarios, thedescriptive narrative not only describes the information include in thechart, but alternately or additionally provides contextual informationthat helps drive an interpretation of the chart information. As oneskilled in the art will appreciate, various implementations utilize astory generator algorithm to generate the descriptive narrative.Accordingly, as further described herein, such as with respect to atleast FIGS. 11 and 16, story narrator module 118 identifies how toaugment the insights identified by the insight engine module withadditional information, such as visual information (e.g., charts,graphs, etc.), descriptive information, markup language information,metadata additions to the narrated analytics playlist, audibleinformation, etc., such as by generating a script that outlines and/orincludes this information.

Animator module 120 generates a narrated analytics playlist based on oneor more scripts received from the story narrator module. Animator module120 bundles visual and audible information into a playlist, such as bygenerating synthesized speech from descriptive narrative informationgenerated by the story narrator module, identifying images to add to theplaylist, etc. The animator module can generate any suitable type of anarrated analytics playlist with any suitable type of data, such as aslide presentation, a video clip, audible data, visual data, metadata,markup text, and so forth.

The proximity platform module 122 provides data abstraction to enablepersonalized analytics module 106 to apply learned information fromvarious sources to other sources without exposing the source-specificdata that contributed to the learning, such as by using techniquesdescribed with respect to at least FIGS. 20A and 20B. As an example,consider a scenario in which personalized analytics module 106 supportsmultiple computing devices, each of which is associated with arespective customer organization. Accordingly, each respective userprofile has private data curation, private relational data models, andso forth, which is used to enhance and/or educate variousmachine-learning algorithms. Various implementations of proximityplatform module 122 extract the respective machine learning information,model updates and the model parameters and/or anecdotal data from eachrespective user profile without accessing the private curated data andrelational data models. As one example, proximity platform module 122extracts the hyper-parameters used by the various machine-learningalgorithms employed by personalized analytics module 106 of FIG. 1 for afirst client device, and applies the hyper-parameters to a second clientdevice using transfer learning methods. Alternately or additionally,proximity platform module 122 extracts anecdotal information from thefirst client device, and utilizes the anecdotal information at thesecond client device. As further described herein at least with respectto FIGS. 20A and 20B, this allows the proximity platform module 122 toincorporate machine-learning information and/or anecdotal data into thepersonalized analytics system, such as by way of extracting and sharinghyper-parameters, thus modifying the system behavior based upon thelearned information and improving how results are generated and/ordelivered to other computing devices accessing the system withoutexposing the curated data of the first client device.

Servers 102 also include communication module 126 to communicate withexternal devices. Here, communication module 126 generally representsany suitable combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware that areconfigurable to facilitate the exchange of information, such as images,addresses, audio, video, commands, queries, messaging, narratedanalytics playlists, and so forth. Some implementations of communicationmodule 126 include one or more protocol stacks associated with a networkover which data is exchanged, firmware that drives hardware to generatesignals and/or process messages used in maintaining a wireless and/orwired communication session, etc. Alternately or additionally, someimplementations of communication module 126 include computer networkingports, such as a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port, a UserDatagram Protocol (UDP) port, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) port, aHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) port, an Internet Message AccessProtocol (IMAP) port, and so forth. Various implementations ofcommunication module 126 include physical communication ports, such as aserial port, a parallel port, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, akeyboard port, a display port, an audio port, etc. In variousimplementations, servers 102 use communication module 126 to connectwith other devices over communication cloud 128, such as computingdevice 104.

Communication cloud 128 generally represents any suitable type ofcommunication network that facilitates a bi-directional link betweenvarious computing devices. Accordingly, communication cloud 128 caninclude multiple interconnected communication networks that comprise aplurality of interconnected elements, such as a wireless local areanetwork (WLAN) with Ethernet access, a wireless telecommunicationnetwork interconnected with the Internet, a wireless (Wi-Fi) accesspoint connected to the Internet, an Internet of Things (IoT) network,and so forth. In this example, communication cloud 128 connects servers102 with computing device 104.

Computing device 104 includes client analytics module 108 that generallyrepresents user access some or all of the functionality provided bypersonalized analytics module 106. In some implementations, clientanalytics module 108 represents a stand-alone client application thatinterfaces into personalized analytics module 106. Alternately oradditionally, client analytics module 108 represents a browser thatremotely logs onto a website hosted by servers 102. Further, whileclient analytics module 108 and personalized analytics module 106 areillustrated as residing on separate devices, some implementationscombine some or all the respective module functionality into a singlecomputing device as further described herein. In variousimplementations, computing device 104 uses client analytics module 108to access cloud-based services provided by servers 102 to obtainnarrated analytics playlists as further described herein. In thisexample, client analytics module 108 includes user interface module 130to provide user access into features provided by personalized analyticssystem, such as playback of a narrated analytics playlist, inputting asearch query, providing user feedback, requesting reports, accessing adashboard and/or corresponding reports, scheduling data curation,scheduling data analysis, adding databases for data curation, and soforth. Client analytics module 108 also includes playback module 132.While illustrated here as being separate from user interface module 130,alternate or additional implementations integrate playback module 132with user interface module 130 without departing from the scope of theclaimed subject matter.

Playback module 132 receives a narrated analytics playlist, and outputsthe content for consumption. This can include playing out audio,rendering video and/or images, displaying text-based content, and soforth. As one example, a user can interact with a particular narratedanalytics playlist via controls displayed by playback module 132, suchas pausing playback, skipping content in the playlist, requestingdrill-up content and/or drill-down content, inputting a search queryduring playback of content, etc. In various implementations, theplayback module includes feedback controls, such as controlscorresponding to giving explicit positive feedback and/or explicitnegative feedback of the content being played out at a particular pointin time.

Computing device 104 also includes communication module 134 tofacilitate communications over communication cloud 128. As one example,computing device 104 can use communication module 134 to communicatewith personalized analytics module 106. Accordingly, similar to thatdescribed with respect to communication module 126, communication module134 generally represents any suitable combination of hardware, software,and/or firmware that is configurable to facilitate data exchanges withother devices.

Further to techniques for automated summarization of extracted insightdata described herein, the personalized analytics module 106 includes aheadline module 136, which is representative of functionality togenerate “headlines” pertaining to data obtained and/or generated by thepersonalized analytics module 106. A headline, for instance, representsa summarization of attributes of insights generated by the insightengine module 116. The headline module 136 can generate headlines invarious ways, such as by extracting and aggregating (e.g.,concatenating) keywords from instances of insights. Further, and asdetailed below, headlines can be provided to the story narrator module118 and the animator module 120 for output, such as in relation toinstances of narrated analytics playlists.

In at least one implementation, the headline module 136 generatesheadlines in response to different trigger events, such as based oncalendar information obtained from a calendar module 138 of thecomputing device 104. The calendar module 138 generally representsfunctionality to manage calendar events pertaining to the computingdevice 104, such as for a user profile of a user that interacts with thecomputing device 104. For instance, a user may interact with a userinterface presented by the calendar module 138 to schedule differentevents, such as meetings, social events, task reminders, and so forth.Thus, the calendar module 138 can track calendar events expresslycreated by users, and can generate notifications of the calendar events.Additionally, the calendar module 138 can track calendar data in theform of temporal data that describes user interactions with thecomputing device 104, such as user access to the client analytics module108 to interact with content generated by the personalized analyticsmodule 106. Such temporal data, for instance, describes time-basedparameters for different user activities, such as time(s) of day that auser typically interacts with the client analytics module 108. Calendardata managed by the calendar module 138 can be provided to thepersonalized analytics module 106, such as for generating trigger eventsthat trigger generation of insights by the insight engine module 116,narrated analytics playlists by the story narrator module 118, headlinesby the headline module 136, and so forth.

The personalized analytics module 106 further includes a search module140 which is representative of functionality to perform various aspectsof dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query describedherein. The search module 140, for instance, includes a phaser module142 that is representative of functionality to generate multiple searchphases for a query (e.g., a natural language query) such that theindividual search phases can be executed to generate a query responsefor the query. As further detailed below, the search module 140 may alsoleverage functionality of the parser module 112, the query magnifiermodule 114, and the insight engine module 116 to perform various queryprocessing.

Consider now FIG. 2 that illustrates an example environment 200 inaccordance with one or more implementations. In various implementations,the example described with respect to FIG. 2 can be considered acontinuation of the example described with respect to FIG. 1.

Environment 200 includes servers 102, computing device 104, andcommunication cloud 128 of FIG. 1, where computing device 104 includes aprocessing system 202, and one or more computer-readable media 204.Processing system 202 is representative of functionality to perform oneor more operations using hardware. Accordingly, the processing system202 is illustrated as including hardware elements 206 that may beconfigured as processors, functional blocks, and so forth. This mayinclude implementation in hardware as an application specific integratedcircuit or other logic device formed using one or more semiconductors.The hardware elements 206 are not limited by the materials from whichthey are formed or the processing mechanisms employed therein. Forexample, processors may be comprised of semiconductor(s) and/ortransistors (e.g., electronic integrated circuits (ICs)). In such acontext, processor-executable instructions may beelectronically-executable instructions.

The computer-readable media 204 is illustrated as includingmemory/storage 208. The memory/storage 208 represents memory/storagecapacity associated with one or more computer-readable media. Thememory/storage 208 may include volatile media (such as random-accessmemory (RAM)) and/or nonvolatile media (such as read only memory (ROM),Flash memory, optical disks, magnetic disks, and so forth). Thememory/storage 208 may include fixed media (e.g., RAM, ROM, a fixed harddrive, and so on) as well as removable media (e.g., Flash memory, aremovable hard drive, an optical disc, and so forth). Thecomputer-readable media 204 may be configured in a variety of other waysas further described below. Here, client analytics module 108 of FIG. 1is illustrated as residing within memory/storage 208, but alternate oradditional implementations implement client analytics module 108 usingcombinations of firmware, hardware, and/or software without departingfrom the scope of the claimed subject matter, such as hardware elements206.

Example environment 200 enables multiple devices to be interconnectedthrough servers 102, where servers 102 can be local to the multipledevices, remote from the multiple devices, or any combination thereof.In one or more implementations, servers 102 are configured as a cloud ofone or more server computers that are connected to the multiple devicesthrough a network, the Internet, or other data communication link. Thisinterconnected architecture enables functionality to be delivered acrossmultiple devices to provide a common and seamless experience to a userof the multiple devices. Each of the multiple devices may have differentphysical requirements and capabilities, and the central computing deviceuses a platform to enable the delivery of an experience to the devicethat is both tailored to the device and yet common to all devices. Invarious implementations, the interconnected architecture allows thepersonalized analytics system to increase a quality of a service byimplementing workload management optimizations or recommendations basedon observed data, performing dynamic operations on different servers(e.g., curating data on a first server and analyzing curated data on asecond server), basing the dynamic operations on a flow of requeststhrough the system to offload work to idle servers, etc. Alternately oradditionally, the interconnected architecture allows the personalizedanalytics system to scale and/or manage resources to optimally tailorexperiences to all client devices receiving cloud-based services. Here,“optimally tailor experiences” denotes the personalized analytics systembalancing how the cloud-based services are provided to each clientdevice based on meeting the needs of each client device using theresources available through the cloud. In at least one embodiment, aclass of target devices is created and experiences are tailored to thegeneric class of devices. A class of devices may be defined by physicalfeatures, types of usage, or other common characteristics of thedevices. In various implementations, scaling and/or managing theresources includes measuring the available resources of the personalizedanalytics system to make a determination on how to distribute theresources. For example, a number of high-volume data transactionsoccurring at a given point in time can add higher volumes of input intothe personalized analytics system, which can affect the performance ofany single server included in the personalized analytics system. Bymeasuring performance indicators, such as storage usage, networkbandwidth, memory usage, and so forth, the personalized analytics systemcan determine to add resources to support data curation, relational datamodeling, insight analysis and/or generation, query augmentation,parameter extraction and distribution, playlist generation, etc. Variousimplementations utilize a workload layer of the cloud-based services toprovide functionality of the personalized analytics system, such asmapping operations, transaction processing operations, data curationoperations, query magnifications and/or augmentations, storyaugmentation, anecdotal information collection, insight analysis and/orgeneration, machine-learning parameter extraction and/or distribution,etc.

The cloud 210 includes and/or is representative of a platform 212 forresources 214. The platform 212 abstracts underlying functionality ofhardware (e.g., servers) and software resources of the cloud 210.Resources 214 may include applications and/or data that can be utilizedwhile computer processing is executed on servers that are remote fromthe computing device 104. For example, resources 214 can includepersonalized analytics module 106 of FIG. 1.

The platform 212 may abstract resources and functions to connectcomputing device 104 with other computing devices. The platform 212 mayalso serve to abstract scaling of resources to provide a correspondinglevel of scale to encountered demand for the resources 214 that areimplemented via the platform 212. Accordingly, in an interconnecteddevice embodiment, implementation of functionality described herein maybe distributed throughout the system. For example, the functionality maybe implemented in part on the computing device 104 as well as via theplatform 212 that abstracts the functionality of the cloud 210.

Having described example operating environments in which various aspectsof narrated analytics playlists can be implemented, consider now adiscussion of generating narrated analytics playlists in accordance withone or more implementations.

Narrated Analytics Playlists

Data mining examines data to identify various types of information, suchas anomalies, patterns, trends, etc. The process of mining data caninvolve accessing one or more data sources in a particular manner toextract the desired information. To illustrate, a database can beprogrammatically accessed to return an average value, a weighted sum, amaximum value in a numeric sequence, sorted data, etc. As the complexityof the requested information increases, so, too, does the access to thedatabase. Accordingly, data mining can be difficult for users who arenot knowledgeable on how to locate and/or extract the desiredinformation. For instance, a businessperson who desires sales trendinformation for a particular product may not understand the schemaand/or interfaces employed by a database storing the corresponding data.

As another complication, the information extracted by data mining cansometimes lose context data that helps the user understand theinformation. For instance, in generating a sales trend chart from data,the sales chart may indicate a downward sales trend for a particularregion, and lose context data that indicates the downward sales trendfor that particular region is a minimal relative to other regions. Thus,the loss of context data can adversely impact how the informationgenerated by data mining is interpreted. The ability to extractinformation, as well as interpret the extracted data, is furthercompounded when large volumes of data from varying sources are used,thus making manual processing cumbersome and/or insurmountable tovarious users.

As further described herein, computer-based resources compile largequantities of data in varying formats and at accelerated rates that ahuman is incapable of compiling manually. This makes processing thecomputer-based data by a user infeasible, since a user processing thedata would be time-consuming and/or impossible to complete. Further, ifa user simply processed a portion of the computer-based data, thiscreates potentially out-of-date, inaccurate, and/or misleading resultssince not all data points are considered. Accordingly, the volume ofcomputer-based data accumulated by an organization from varying datasources, the speed at which data is accumulated by these data sources,as well as the differing formats in which the data can be stored, makesextracting accurate, current, and reliable insights from the data by auser insurmountable and difficult.

Techniques described herein provide automated generation of narratedanalytics playlists. Various implementations curate data from variousdata sources, where curating the data includes identifying attributesand relational data models. One or more implementations base thecurating upon anecdotal data associated with a user profile. In responseto receiving a trigger event to perform a query analysis, one or moreimplementations identify keywords to use in the query analysis, andextract information from the curated data based, at least in part on theone or more keywords. The extracted information is then analyzed toidentify one or more insights. In turn, one or more implementationsgenerate a narrated analytics playlist using the one or more insights.

To demonstrate, consider now FIG. 3 that illustrates an example ofgenerating a narrated analytics playlist in accordance with one or moreimplementations. In various scenarios, the example described withrespect to FIG. 3 can be considered a continuation of one or moreexamples described with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 3 illustrates anexample progression of events over an arbitrary time period. Here, theprogression begins in the upper portion of FIG. 3 and then moves to thelower portion of FIG. 3. It is to be appreciated that the progression ofevents described with respect to FIG. 3 is for discussion purposes, andthat any other ordering, omission, and/or addition to the events canoccur without departing from the scope of the claimed subject matter.

The upper portion of FIG. 3 includes user 300 that accesses apersonalized analytics system using computing device 302. Whilecomputing device 302 is illustrated here as a desktop computer, othertypes of computing devices include a mobile phone, a tablet, a laptop, asmart watch, a home assistant device, and so forth. In variousimplementations, user 300 log onto the personalized analytics systemusing a specific identification and password that distinguishes aparticular workspace associated with user 300 from other workspaces,such as through an account associated with a particular user profileand/or workspace. To illustrate, the user can create single or multipleworkspaces, where each workspace has a specific identification andpassword that can be used to identify the respective workspace and/orinteractions with the respective workspace. In turn, logging onto thesystem with the specific identification and password accesses thecorresponding workspace. It is to be appreciated that user 300 canaccess the personalized analytics system in any suitable manner, such asthrough a web browser that accesses a remote server, through a clientapplication that communicates with a server application over a network,a stand-alone application, etc.

As user 300 interacts with the personalized analytics system, someimplementations collect anecdotal data about the user and/or the user'svarious interactions, such as user location information, userpreferences, user preferred queries, last known user interaction, userpreferred product information, user preferred insight information, andso forth. In turn, the collected anecdotal data can be stored and/orassociated with the particular workspace and/or user profile. When theparticular workspace becomes the active workspace, the personalizedanalytics system uses the corresponding anecdotal data to generateinsights and/or narrated analytics playlists directed to the particularuser profile and/or particular workspace. This can include using theanecdotal data to determine how to represent the insights whenincorporating the insights into a narrated analytics playlist, alanguage style to use, types of content to include in the playlist(e.g., preferred content associated with the user profile, contentrelevant to an associated organization profile, content relevant to anassociated job, etc.).

Some implementations share anecdotal data across multiple workspaces,such as workspaces identified as being associated with a same userand/or same user profile. For instance, the personalized analyticssystem can collect anecdotal data for the same user profile acrossmultiple workspaces, and use the anecdotal data in each respectiveworkspace of the user profile. Collecting and/or generating theanecdotal data can be achieved in any suitable manner. As one example,various implementations collect user interactions with the personalizedanalytics system, and then process the user interactions using predictorfunctions, machine-learned algorithms, etc., to determine the user'saffinities. To illustrate, the personalized analytics system can gatherdata points corresponding to user interactions with various types ofcharts displayed by the system, and feed the data points to amachine-learning algorithm to determine that the user has an affinitytowards pie charts, dislikes bar charts, and so forth. Any suitable typeof machine-learning algorithm can be utilized, such as collaborativefiltering algorithms, object ranking algorithms, label ranking, instanceranking, and so forth. Some of the machine learning modules utilizedemploy supervised learning techniques that train a machine-learningalgorithm with background knowledge, and then feed the observed datapoints into the machine-learning algorithm as a way to identify theseaffinities. The training, as well as iterative updating of themachine-learning algorithms as new data is processed, improve theefficiency of the algorithms to converge on a result faster over time.Thus, utilizing machine-learning algorithms improves the execution timesof a corresponding computing device and/or personalized analyticssystem. Portions of the machine-learning algorithm can be distributedwithin the personalized analytics system to improve the system responsetime, such as through the use of a workload layer of a cloud-basedservice. Alternately or additionally, portions of the algorithm can berun locally on a user device to improve response time by minimizing datatransfer between the user device and a cloud-based service. It is to beappreciated that the examples described here are for illustrativepurposes, and other types of machine-learning algorithms and/ordistribution methods can be utilized without departing from the scope ofthe claimed subject matter, such as preference elicitation models,multiple-criteria decision analysis models, statistic-based predictivemodels, and so forth.

In FIG. 3, the personalized analytics system displays, by way ofcomputing device 302, user interface 304 that includes an interactivecontrol in the form of search box 306. In turn, user 300 enters an inputsearch query 308 that triggers a query analysis as further describedherein. While the example described with respect to FIG. 3 generallyillustrates a search box, other types of interfaces can be utilized toaccess and input search queries to the personalized analytics system,such as a search box at a stand-alone application and/orweb-application, a search box via a web browser interface, a microphonecommunicatively coupled to computing device 302 and/or a home assistantdevice to receive audible input, a camera communicatively coupled tocomputing device 302 and/or a home assistant device to receive videoinput, etc. Various implementations of the personalized analyticsprovide time information associated with how long the query analysisprocess will take (e.g., how long until a result is returned by thepersonalized analytics system). This can occur automatically and/or inresponse to the personalized analytics system receiving input thatrequests the time information.

Moving to the lower portion of FIG. 3, and in response to receivinginput search query 308, user interface 304 displays a narrated analyticsplaylist 310 generated by the personalized analytics system. In one ormore implementations, the narrated analytics playlist 310 is output viaplayback module 132 of FIG. 1. Narrated analytics playlist 310 includesvarious insights identified by the personalized analytics system thatare based off of input search query 308 and/or anecdotal data associatedwith a user profile and/or workspace associated with user 300.

User interface 304 includes playback control 312 that can be actuated toinitiate playback of narrated analytics playlist 310. Here, narratedanalytics playlist 310 includes a series of images in a video format,further illustrated here as image 314-1, image 314-2, and image 314-3,respectively, to show the progression of images and/or audio.Accordingly, narrated analytics playlist 310 includes audible output 316that corresponds to a narrated description of the content rendered inimages 314-1 through 314-3. Each respective image of the playlist (e.g.,images 314-1 through 314-3) corresponds to an insight identified by thepersonalized analytics system. Various implementations includesupplemental information and/or insights within the narrated analyticsplaylist, such as drill-up information, drill-down information,location-based information, time-based information, product-basedinformation, etc. Alternately or additionally, the playback modulerenders controls that can be actuated to initiate the generation of thesupplemental information using data included in the narrated analyticsplaylist. In other words, the personalized analytics system providesuser 300 with not only the requested information associated with inputsearch query 308, but additionally identifies supplemental informationand/or provides the user with an ability to generate the supplementalinformation, such as supplemental insights.

Various implementations augment queries with additional parameters scopein or add boundaries on how curated data is extracted and/or analyzed.This simplifies the complexity of inputs queries, since the personalizedanalytics system can process broad input queries by adding contextualparameters that help bound the request. To demonstrate, consider nowFIG. 4 that illustrates adding contextual parameters to a query inaccordance with one or more implementations. In various scenarios, theexample described with respect to FIG. 4 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-3. FIG. 4 illustrates an example progression of events over anarbitrary time period. Here, the progression begins in the upper portionof FIG. 4, moves to the middle portion of FIG. 4, and then progresses tothe lower portion of FIG. 4. It is to be appreciated that theprogression of events described with respect to FIG. 4 is for discussionpurposes, and that any other ordering, omission, and/or addition to theevents can occur without departing from the scope of the claimed subjectmatter.

The upper portion of FIG. 4 includes input search query 308 from FIG. 3.While input search query 308 includes a text-based question (e.g., hasProduct X been selling well?), it is to be appreciated that this is fordiscussion purposes and that any other combination of words, images,and/or audio can be utilized as a search query without departing fromthe scope of the claimed subject matter. Various implementations analyzethe combination of words included in input search query 308, anddetermine to add contextual parameters to the query. For example, duringthe analysis, the personalized analytics system identifies contextualwords included in the search query that correspond to topics of interestto focus an analysis on, such as through the use of natural languageprocessing algorithms. In FIG. 4, the personalized analytics systemidentifies contextual word 400 (e.g., “Product X”) and contextual word402 (e.g., “selling”) as topics to base a query analysis off of. Whileinput search query 308 includes these topical words that can help directa query analysis, the query string lacks contextual information and/orboundaries that help reduce the scope of the query, such as a time spanfor the sales data, a region over which to gather sales information, andso forth. Accordingly, various implementations identify contextualparameters to include in a query, such as through the use of a querymagnifier module as described with respect to at least FIGS. 11 and 14.

Moving to the middle portion of FIG. 4, the personalized analyticssystem generates a modified query 404 that has been augmented to includecontextual parameter 406 and contextual parameter 408. Here, contextualparameter 406 corresponds to location and/or region data, whilecontextual parameter 408 provides a time range over which to analyzedata. The contextual parameters can be identified in any suitablemanner, such as through the use of anecdotal data associated with a userprofile and/or workspace associated with user 300. For instance, theanecdotal data of the active workspace and/or active user profile caninclude location information associated with user 300, sales regionsassigned to user 300, a time metric of when the last sales report forProduct X was generated, etc. In turn, the personalized analytics systemdetermines contextual parameters that help bound the query used toextract curated data for analysis. While the example described withrespect to FIG. 4 adds location and time contextual parameters, it is tobe appreciated that other types of parameters can be included as well,such as a search history, organization information, a drill-down ordrill-up path, traits corresponding to a particular product, subjectdomain insights, user interaction with related products, and so forth.

Moving to the lower portion of FIG. 4, playlist image 314-1 and playlistimage 314-2 correspond to insights generated from the query analysisbased on modified query 404. For example, image 314-1 corresponds to asales trend over a time span corresponding to contextual parameter 408and/or a region corresponding to contextual parameter 406. Image 314-2corresponds to an insight associated with a comparison chart of sales inother regions relative to the one identified in contextual parameter406, such as regions that lie on a same boundary. Adding contextualparameters to a query analysis allows the personalized analytics systemto generate a result for the requested topic (e.g., image 314-1) and/orsupplemental information (e.g., image 314-2) without needing to receivea second, potentially more defined, input query. To illustrate, aninsight engine module, such as those discussed with respect to at leastFIGS. 1, 11, and 15, uses the augmented query to extract curated dataand analyze the data to generate insights and/or supplementalinformation as further described herein.

In FIG. 4, narration 410 describes various details about image 314-1 toprovide contextual information about what the image illustrates, such asa narrative description of the charted sales over the correspondingweek. Similarly, narration 412 provides a narrative description of image314-2, such as a description that indicates the bar chart compares thesales trend for Washington State to sales trends in boundary states, andthe observation that Washington State sales declined less than otherstates. In other words, the personalized analytics system identifies aninsight corresponding to comparative sales to other states by augmentinginput search query 308 using anecdotal data and without additional userinput and/or user direction. While the example with respect to FIG. 4includes a comparative sales chart based on location, it is to beappreciated that other types of insights can be identified using variousmachine learning algorithms, data mining algorithms, PCA algorithms,etc.

With respect to FIGS. 3 and 4, user 300 manually enters a search queryinto the personalized analytics system using an interactive controldisplayed via a user interface, where the search query is alternatelyreferred to as a user query. In response to the user actuating thecontrol, the personalized analytics system receives a notification ofthe user query trigger event, and subsequently triggers a queryanalysis. However, other types of events trigger events can trigger aquery analysis. To further demonstrate, consider now FIGS. 5A-5C thatcollectively illustrate various trigger events in accordance with one ormore implementations. In some scenarios, the examples described withrespect to FIGS. 5A-5C can be considered a continuation of one or moreexamples described with respect to FIGS. 1-4.

The upper portion of FIG. 5A includes a personalized analytics system500 that, in various scenarios, is representative of the personalizedanalytics system described in FIG. 1, such as servers 102 and/orcomputing device 104. For simplicity's sake, FIGS. 5A-5C generallyillustrate the personalized analytics system 500 as a black box todenote that multiple different configurations of the system can beutilized, examples of which are provided herein. The upper portion ofFIG. 5A also includes home assistant device 502 that is communicativelycoupled to, and/or is part of, the personalized analytics system. Forexample, in some scenarios, home assistant device 502 corresponds tocomputing device 104 of FIG. 1. Home assistant device 502 includes amicrophone 504 to receive audible input trigger events associated withtriggering a query analysis. Here, audible input 506 includes a querycorresponding to “what is the year-to-date sales figure”. In response toreceiving audible input 506, the home assistant device forwardsinformation associated with audible input 506 to the personalizedanalytics system 500 to trigger a query analysis, such an audio clip ofaudible input 506, a text conversion of the audible input, a triggerevent message, etc. To illustrate, various implementations includespeech-to-text algorithms that process audible input 506, and generatetext-based representations of words identified via the speech-to-textalgorithms. In turn, the personalized analytics system 500 receives thetext-based representation and performs a search analysis, examples ofwhich are provided herein. In other implementations, an audio clip isforwarded to the personalized analytics system 500 for processing asfurther described herein. Accordingly, various implementations trigger aquery analysis using an audible input. While the upper portion of FIG.5A illustrates audible support via a home assistant device, other typesof devices support audible input/output as well, such as a mobile phone,a tablet, a personal computer, a smart watch, etc.

In various implementations, audible support of the personalizedanalytics system 500 can alternately or additionally include outputtingaudible prompts. To demonstrate, some implementations of home assistantdevice 502 output an audible prompt, such as “would you like an analysisof your helpdesk ticket queue now?” Any suitable event can trigger theoutput of an audible prompt, such as a threshold value being triggered(e.g., the ticket queue exceeding a predefined number of entries), auser-defined schedule, and so forth. In response to outputting theaudible prompt, various implementations receive audible inputs and/orresponses, such as a one-word audible reply (e.g., “Yes”, “No”) thattriggers a query analysis based on content included in the prompt.Accordingly, various implementations include speech-to-text conversionalgorithms and/or keyword extraction algorithms.

Various implementations trigger a query analysis based upon a scan of acalendar of appointments and/or a schedule. To further demonstrate,consider now the lower portion of FIG. 5A that includes personalizedanalytics system 500 and display device 508 that is communicativelycoupled to, and/or is part of, the personalized analytics system. Forexample, in some scenarios, display device 508 corresponds to a displaydevice associated with computing device 104 of FIG. 1. For simplicity'ssake, the lower portion of FIG. 5A simply includes a display device, butas one skilled in the art will appreciate, various implementations drivethe display of content on display device 508 via a computing device thatis communicatively coupled to the display. Further, while display device508 renders calendar information 510, it is to be appreciated thatvarious implementations are able to scan calendar information withoutrendering and/or displaying the calendar information on a respectivedisplay.

In various scenarios, the personalized analytics system 500 scanscalendar information 510 to identify topics and/or events of interest,such as appointments, meetings, and/or contextual words included in theappointments and/or meetings. In response to locating a topic and/orevent, various implementations trigger a query analysis based uponvarious characteristics associated with the identified topic and/orevent. For instance, calendar information 510 includes two separateevents that can be used to trigger respective query analyses. Event 512includes the contextual words “sales” and “Product X”. Accordingly, inresponse to identifying these contextual words included in a calendarevent, the personalized analytics system triggers a query analysis basedupon the identified contextual words. This can include performingaugmented queries based upon user information, anecdotal data, alternatewording, etc. In response to scanning event 514, the personalizedanalytics system identifies the word “Louis” as a contextual word basedon anecdotal data that identifies Louis as a customer. In turn, thepersonalized analytics system automatically triggers a query analysisdirected to Louis and/or any business information associated with Louis.In other words, the personalized analytics system triggers an automatedquery based upon the scan of the calendar information, rather thantriggering the query based on explicit user input. The scan of calendarinformation can be initiated in any suitable manner, such as anautomated scan performed by the system at system startup, in response todetecting a user logging into the system, periodically, based on auser-defined schedule, etc. Alternately or additionally, a user canmanually initiate a calendar scan, such as through the actuation of asoftware control button. While described in the context of extractingcontextual words from calendar information, alternate or additionalsources can be scanned for contextual words as well, such as anEnterprise Resource Planner (ERP), Customer Relationship Management(CRM) software, Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) software, ProductInformation Management (PIM) software, and so forth.

Various implementations enable a user to define a schedule fortriggering user-defined query analyses. To illustrate, consider now theupper portion of FIG. 5B that includes personalized analytics system 500and display device 516. Similar to that described with respect todisplay device 508 FIG. 5A, display device 516 renders an examplescheduler user interface for discussion purposes, but alternateimplementations can trigger query analyses without the scheduler userinterface being rendered. In this example, the scheduler displays twouser-defined triggers schedules, where the user has defined variouscontextual and/or keywords to base a query analysis on and a schedulefor when to perform the analysis. Here, trigger schedule 518 correspondsto a weekly analysis based on Product X, while trigger schedule 520corresponds to a monthly analysis on Competitor Y sales. Accordingly,the personalized analytics system triggers a weekly query analysis basedupon the contextual word “Product X” and a monthly query analysis basedupon the contextual words “Competitor Y” and “sales”. The query analysiscan include augmented queries as further described herein. While notillustrated here, some implementations provide gradient results, wherethe personalized analytics system receives input that defines and/oradjusts an amount and/or type of information returned to a user for thequery analysis, such as verbose narration, minimal narration, desiredcharts, desired graphs, disallowed charts, disallowed information, etc.Accordingly, various implementations trigger a query analysis usingschedules and/or return gradient content based upon user-definedsettings.

Now consider the lower portion of FIG. 5B that demonstrates anotherexample of triggering a query analysis in accordance with one or moreimplementations. Here, the lower portion of FIG. 5B includespersonalized analytics system 500 and mobile device 522. As in the caseof home assistant device 502, display device 508, and/or display device516, mobile device 522 can be communicatively coupled to, and/or be apart of, the personalized analytics system 500. Here, mobile device 522displays content 524 that corresponds to information and/or an insightgenerated by the personalized analytics system 500. Thus, mobile device522 is in process of outputting content corresponding to a narratedanalytics playlist generated by personalized analytics system 500. Invarious implementations, the personalized analytics system 500 providesthe ability to manually trigger a query analysis during playback ofcontent. This is further illustrated in the lower portion of FIG. 5B,where the user interface of mobile device 522 renders control 526. Inturn, user 528 actuates control 526 to trigger a query analysisassociated with updating the content being currently consumed (e.g.,content 524). Accordingly, the inclusion of control 526 allows formanual input that explicitly triggers the query analysis via a singleuser-interaction (e.g., a one-click activation).

Mobile device 522 renders control 526 during the playback of content524, but it is to be appreciated that alternate or additionalimplementations provide controls and/or manual activation of a queryanalysis in other ways. For example, in some implementations, mobiledevice 522 displays a dashboard that includes multiple types of content,such as different charts and/or graphs corresponding to a same product,different charts and/or graphs where each chart or graph corresponds toa respective product, an organization chart, and so forth. Variousimplementations associate a control with one or all of the differenttypes of content that can be actuated to trigger a query analysis asfurther described herein.

Now consider now FIG. 5C that illustrates an example of implicitlytriggering a query analysis in accordance with one or moreimplementations. FIG. 5C includes personalized analytics system 500 andmobile device 530, where mobile device 530 is in process of playing apodcast 532. Similar to that described with respect to home assistantdevice 502, display device 508, display device 516, and/or mobile device522, mobile device 530 communicatively couples to, and/or is part of,personalized analytics system 500 as further described in. Variousimplementations gather anecdotal data of user interactions, andimplicitly trigger a query analysis based upon the anecdotal data. Inother words, the personalized analytics system 500 gathers informationassociated with user interactions, and determines to trigger a queryanalysis based on interpreting the user interactions as implicitfeedback.

Unlike control 526 of FIG. 5B that is explicitly dedicated to triggeringa query analysis, the user interactions pertain to alternatefunctionality. For instance, user 534 interacts with volume control 536at a particular point in time during the podcast to increase the volumeof the audio being output. In turn, the personalized analytics system500 collects information about the user interaction and interprets thisinteraction as implicit positive feedback of the content being outputsince the audible volume is being increased. In response to determiningthe user has entered implicit positive feedback, the personalizedanalytics system 500 identifies a topic and/or keywords associated withthe feedback, and triggers a query analysis based on the identifiedtopic and/or keywords. Thus, various implementations of the personalizedanalytics system 500 can trigger query analyses based off of implicituser interactions, rather than explicit user interactions as furtherdescribed herein. The personalized analytics system 500 can determinethe associated topic and/or keywords in any suitable manner, such as byidentifying a general topic associated with the podcast, a topic beingoutput at a point in time the implicit positive feedback is received,content being displayed on a user interface at the point in time theimplicit positive feedback is received, etc.

While the personalized analytics system 500 can collect informationabout user interactions, various implementations alternately oradditionally provide mechanisms to disable tracking user interactionand/or gathering information about the user interactions, such asthrough the use of software controls and/or customizable settings. Thisallows a user to have control over the information associated with auser profile and/or workspace, thus providing the user with privacyoptions. In some scenarios, the personalized analytics system 500includes gradient privacy settings that define and/or set a level of howmuch information is collected, how much information is saved, whatinformation is ignored, etc. (e.g., a first privacy level correspondingto tracking all user interactions, a second privacy level correspondingto disable tracking all user interactions, a third privacy level thattracks only user interactions with a playback module, a fourth privacylevel corresponding to disabling tracking correspondences, a fifthprivacy level corresponding to disabling tracking calendar appointments,etc.). To demonstrate, consider a scenario in which a client devicecollects and forwards information about user interactions to thepersonalized analytics system 500. Various implementations display auser interface at the client device that provides access to privacysettings, thus enabling a user to enter input that changes whatinformation personalized analytics system can and cannot track. Forexample, the user can enter input that disables tracking all userinteractions user interactions. In response to receiving the privacysetting input, the personalized analytics system 500 disables collectinginformation about user interactions at the client device.

Various implementations alternately or additionally modify what ispresented in real-time and/or while a playlist is being consumed. Tofurther demonstrate, consider now FIG. 6 that illustrates an example ofautomatically generating drill-path content during playback inaccordance with one or more implementations. In various scenarios, theexample described with respect to FIG. 6 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-5C. FIG. 6 illustrates an example progression of events over anarbitrary time period, where the progression begins in the upper portionof FIG. 6, followed by the lower portion of FIG. 6. It is to beappreciated that the progression of events described with respect toFIG. 6 is for discussion purposes, and that any other ordering,omission, and/or addition to the events can occur without departing fromthe scope of the claimed subject matter.

The upper portion of FIG. 6 includes tablet 600 that is in process ofrendering and/or outputting playlist content 602. Here, playlist content602 corresponds to a statically bundled narrated analytics playlistgenerated by the personalized analytics system and delivered to tablet600 for consumption. The phrase “statically bundled content” is used todenote fixed content that includes ordered and predefined content, suchas a playlist with a fixed number of charts, a fixed number of graphics,fixed narration and/or description, etc. In various implementations,tablet 600 receives statically bundled content from remote devices, suchas via servers 102 of FIG. 1. Alternately or additionally, tablet 600generates the statically bundled content via a standalone applicationand/or by access to cloud-based services provided by servers 102.

The content displayed by tablet 600 in the upper portion of FIG. 6includes playlist content 602 that corresponds to a sales chart ofcoffee sales in the state of Washington. The statically bundled contentbeing rendered and/or output by tablet 600 also includes audible content604 that provides a narrative description and/or additional contextinformation corresponding to playlist content 602. Variousimplementations dynamically generate content during playback ofstatically bundled content. In other words, the personalized analyticssystem 500 can receive input requests for supplemental informationcorresponding to the rendered and/or output content, such as drill-up ordrill-down items.

To illustrate, the user interface being rendered by tablet 600 duringplayback of playlist content 602 includes control 606 and control 608,each of which corresponds to dynamically generating supplementalinformation. In FIG. 6, control 606 corresponds to dynamicallygenerating a comparison chart based on regional information, whilecontrol 608 corresponds to dynamically generating a sales chart for adifferent, but related, product. In response to a control beingactuated, the personalized analytics system 500 receives an inputassociated with the actuation and generates output content that was notincluded in the statically bundled information. Here, user 610 actuatescontrol 606 to view a comparison chart that corresponds to requestingand/or generating drill-up content. One or more implementations generatedrill-up or drill-down content autonomously based on machine-learningalgorithms that learn and/or identify a user preference. As onenon-limiting example, various implementations generate the drill-upcontent or drill-down content based on user-preferences that define ascope and/or amount of drilling content to present, such as through anevaluation of historical patterns associated with a user profile, trendsassociated with the user profile, etc. This can include analyzing theassociated metadata and/or extracting additional curated data togenerate the drill-up content and/or drill-down content.

Moving to the lower portion of FIG. 6, the personalized analytics system500 interrupts the outputting of playlist content 602 to outputsupplemental content 612. Here, supplemental content 612 includes acomparison chart that compares sales figures of coffee in variousregions. The supplemental content includes audible content 614 toprovide a narrative description and/or additional context informationassociated with the dynamically generated content. The dynamicgeneration of content can be performed in any suitable manner. Forexample, some implementations use metadata included in the staticallybundled content to generate new charts, graphs, narrative content, etc.Alternately or additionally, tablet 600 triggers a query analysis thatincludes a topic associated with the actuated control. Thus, in someimplementations, tablet 600 receives the supplemental information from aremote computing device and/or generates the supplemental via a queryanalysis as further described herein. Various implementationsalternately or additionally provide the ability to modify and/orcustomize statically bundled content and/or dynamically generatedcontent.

To demonstrate, consider now FIG. 7 that illustrates an example of theuser-defined customizations in accordance with one or moreimplementations. In various scenarios, the example described withrespect to FIG. 7 can be considered a continuation of one or moreexamples described with respect to FIGS. 1-6. FIG. 7 illustrates anexample progression of events over an arbitrary time period, where theprogression begins in the upper portion of FIG. 7, followed by the lowerportion of FIG. 7. It is to be appreciated that the progression ofevents described with respect to FIG. 7 is for discussion purposes, andthat any other ordering, omission, and/or addition to the events canoccur without departing from the scope of the claimed subject matter.

Similar to that described with respect to FIG. 6, the upper portion ofFIG. 7 includes tablet 700 that is in progress of outputting playlistcontent 702 that includes a descriptive narrative in the form of audibleoutput 704. The playlist content also includes text 706 that correspondsto the content included in audible output 704 that displays readablecontent in parallel with the corresponding audible output. The userinterface displayed by tablet 700 also includes setting control 708that, when actuated, exposes user-configurable settings, such as thoseillustrated in menu 710. For example, menu 710 as illustrated in FIG. 7includes configurable settings for changing a displayed font (e.g., fonttype, size, color, etc.), changing a background image (e.g., image,pattern, color, etc.), changing a displayed chart (e.g., chart size,color, form, shape, preferred charts, disallowed charts, etc.), andchanging a narration level (e.g., minimal narration, medium narration,verbose narration, etc.). It is to be appreciated that the settingsdisplayed by menu 710 are merely for discussion purposes, and thatvarious implementations include alternate or additionaluser-configurable settings. For example, various implementations providethe ability to customize themes that control multiple facets of what isdisplayed (e.g., a font type, a font size, a color pallet, cursor types,etc.), such as through the use of selectable user interface controls. Inresponse to receiving input that defines and/or configures a setting,various implementations modify the setting and/or apply the modifiedsetting to content in real-time while a playlist is being consumed.However, while described in the context of applying settings duringoutput of a narrated analytics playlist, alternate or additionalimplementations apply the settings at times other than when a narratedanalytics playlist is being output. In other words, the settings can bestatically applied independent of rendering and/or outputting aplaylist.

Moving to the lower portion of FIG. 7, tablet 700 displays modified text712 based upon the modified user-defined settings. Here, modified text712 has an increased font size relative to text 706.

Now consider FIGS. 8A and 8B that illustrate an example of analyticassistance during playback in accordance with one or moreimplementations. In various scenarios, the example described withrespect to FIGS. 8A and 8B can be considered a continuation of one ormore examples described with respect to FIGS. 1-7. FIGS. 8A and 8Bcollectively illustrate an example progression of events over anarbitrary time period. Here, the progression begins in the upper portionof FIG. 8A and then moves to the lower portion of FIG. 8A. Theprogression then moves to the upper portion of FIG. 8B, followed by thelower portion of FIG. 8B. It is to be appreciated that the progressionof events described with respect to FIGS. 8A and 8B is for discussionpurposes, and that any other ordering, omission, and/or addition to theevents can occur without departing from the scope of the claimed subjectmatter.

The upper portion of FIG. 8A includes tablet 800 that is in process ofoutputting playlist content 802 that corresponds to a sales chart in aregion corresponding to Washington State. While not illustrated here,various implementations output a narrative description as part of theconsumption of playlist content 802. The user interface displayed viatablet 800 includes a search field 804 that provides a mechanism formanually entering search keywords and/or initiating a query analysis. Inthis example, search field 804 includes input query string 806. Invarious implementations, the personalized analytics system 500 performsa query analysis based on input query string 806 and/or contextualinformation associated with the current content being rendered and/oroutput by tablet 800. For instance, input query string 806 requestssales information for a region corresponding to Oregon State. In turn,the personalized analytics system 500 augments the search by usingcontextual information associated with playlist content 802. In otherwords, the personalized analytics system 500 identifies that theplaylist content corresponds to weekly coffee sales, and augments inputquery string 806 to search for weekly coffee sales in Oregon, eventhough input query string 806 does not specify “weekly” or “coffee”.This allows the personalized analytics system 500 to provide the userwith analytic assistance to acquire additional information not includedin the statically bundled content of playlist content 802. While inputquery string 806 enters text-based input as a way to trigger a queryanalysis, alternate or additional implementations receive commandsand/or queries in alternate formats, examples of which are providedherein. In response to receiving the query, the personalized analyticssystem 500 triggers a query analysis and/or generates modified contentusing metadata included with playlist content 802. In one or moreimplementations, the personalized analytics system 500 generates asuggested query and/or a suggested action as part of the modifiedcontent, such as alternate words to include in a query, alternateactions to initiate, etc. For instance, the personalized analyticssystem 500 can analyze an associated user profile using variousmachine-learning algorithms to identify queries with positive feedback,actions with positive feedback, preferred actions, associated keywordswith a higher probability of success, and so forth, to base a suggestedquery and/or suggested action on, such as a suggested action to requestsales information for a competitor, a suggested action to generatediagnostic information associated with a product, alternate keywords toinclude, etc.

To demonstrate, consider a scenario in which the personalized analyticssystem identifies an insight associated with customer purchasingbehavior. The insight can be based on any suitable type of data, such asanecdotal data, curated data, data actively being used by thepersonalized analytics system during, a period of time, data at rest(e.g., data stored in a database), data in motion (e.g., data beingcollected in real-time), and so forth. The personalized analytics systemcan derive the insight using any one or combination of these data types.Some implementations alternately or additionally generate a suggestedaction based on the insight, such as a suggestion to conduct marketingcampaigns based on the insight associated with the customer purchasingbehavior.

Thus, various implementations of the personalized analytics systemprovide suggestions to the user, in lieu of, and/or in addition to,insights. This can include suggesting different analyses to run and/ordifferent results to request. In some implementations, the personalizedanalytics system provides suggestions during output and/or the renderingof a narrated analytics playlist. Alternately or additionally, variousimplementations provide the suggestions after performing a queryanalysis (but before generating the narrated analytics playlist), when auser logs into the personalized analytics system 500, etc., in responseto identifying a trigger event, etc.

Moving to the lower portion of FIG. 8A, and in response to the inputquery string, tablet 800 displays modified content 808 that includesaudible narration content 810. Here, the audible narration content 810provides the additional context information of “Stores #22 and #37together contribute to 8.4% of total sales made by 44 stores in Oregon”to deliver information that explains a context to what the correspondingcontent indicates. In various implementations, this additional contextinformation corresponds to an insight identified by the personalizedanalytics system 500.

In the upper portion of FIG. 8A, input query string 806 includesmultiple keywords that are used in the query analysis. However,alternate or additional implementations support one-word query analyticsas well. To further demonstrate, consider now the upper portion of FIG.8B in which the personalized analytics system, by way of tablet 800,receives a one-word audible input 812 via microphone 814. In response toreceiving the one-word audible input, the personalized analytics systemidentifies the current content being rendered and/or output by tablet800 (e.g., modified content 808), and uses this information to addcontextual parameters to the input query. Alternately or additionally,the personalized analytics system identifies the previously renderedcontent (e.g., playlist content 802) to acquire context informationand/or add contextual parameters to the user input request. Thepersonalized analytics system then performs a query analysis and/oranalyzes the corresponding metadata associated with modified content 808to generate a response to the input query.

In the lower portion of FIG. 8B, tablet 800 outputs narrativedescription 816 audibly via speaker 818 that corresponds to a result ofthe one-word input query. In some implementations, the personalizedanalytics system generates visual content in response to the one-wordinput query, such as text content, charts, graphs, videos, etc.Accordingly, various implementations receive a one-word input command,request, and/or query, and gather relevant information to identifyinsights and/or generate a response to the query. As further describedherein, this can include identifying anecdotal data, and applying theanecdotal data in generating the response.

Now consider FIG. 9 that illustrates examples of capturing and/orgenerating anecdotal data associated with a user profile and/orworkspace in accordance with one or more implementations. In variousscenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 9 can beconsidered a continuation of one or more examples described with respectto FIGS. 1-8B.

FIG. 9 includes personalized analytics system 500 of FIG. 5 that isgenerally representative of the personalized analytics system describedin FIG. 1, such as servers 102 and/or computing device 104. FIG. 9 alsoincludes tablet 900, tablet 902, tablet 904, and tablet 906 that,similar to home assistant device 502, display device 508, display device516, mobile device 522, and/or mobile device 530 of FIGS. 5A-5C, arecommunicatively coupled to, and/or are part of, personalized analyticssystem 500 as further described herein.

Tablet 900 is currently in a state of rendering and/or outputtingplaylist content 908, where playlist content 908 represents analyticcontent generated by the personalized analytics system. The userinterface displayed by tablet 900 includes a control 910 that has anassociated action corresponding to saving the current content beingdisplayed and/or output. Accordingly, in response to user 912 actuatingcontrol 910, the personalized analytics system saves a screenshot of thecontent being rendered and/or saves a clip of the corresponding audiothat is being output (not illustrated here). Various implementationsidentify the actuation of control 910 as implicit positive feedback, andsubsequently determine to capture anecdotal data, such as identifyingthe content being output and/or marking the content as user-preferredcontent. This can include identifying a topic associated with thepie-chart as being of interest and/or identifying the pie-chart formatas a user-preferred chart type. In turn, the personalized analyticssystem references the anecdotal data when generating future content,such as determining to render a pie-chart in a future narrated analyticsplaylist for the user profile associated with user 912.

As another example of capturing anecdotal data, consider now tablet 902that also is in process of outputting playlist content 908. Here, theuser interface of tablet 900 includes playback controls 914 thatinterface with a playback module to allow input that modifies therendering and/or playback of playlist content 908, such as pausing thecontent, rewinding the content, skipping the content, etc. With respectto tablet 902, user 916 actuates a control of playback controls 914 thatcauses the corresponding playback module to skip outputting the currentcontent. Various implementations of the personalized analytics systeminterpret this input as implicit negative feedback, and determine tocollect context information to generate anecdotal data for thecorresponding user profile. Similar to that described with respect totablet 900, this can include identifying a topic associated with thecurrent topic and/or a displayed format, and determining to avoid thesetopics and/or formats for a user profile associated with user 916.

While tablet 902 demonstrates an example of personalized analyticssystem 500 interpreting user interactions as implicit feedback, tablet904 illustrates an example of explicit feedback. For example, the userinterface of tablet 904 includes an explicit positive feedback control918-1 and an explicit negative feedback control 918-2. Accordingly, userinteraction with either controls provides the personalized analyticssystem with explicit feedback. In response to user 920 actuatingexplicit positive feedback control 918-1, personalized analytics system500 identifies corresponding context information, and stores theinformation as anecdotal data as further described herein.

Various implementations identify user distinctions for ambiguous wordsas anecdotal data. To further illustrate, consider a scenarioillustrated by tablet 906 that is in process of outputting playlistcontent 908. In this scenario, the personalized analytics systemreceives an input request for analytic assistance from the personalizedanalytics system, such as via an input query through a search fieldsimilar search field 804 of FIG. 8A (not illustrated here). The inputquery includes an ambiguous term which the personalized analytics doesnot have enough data to resolve, such as the term “Washington” that canrefer to Washington State or Washington D.C. Various implementationsprompt for input corresponding to additional context information and/orclarification, and store the additional information as anecdotal dataassociated with a corresponding user profile and/or workspace. Forinstance, the user interface of tablet 906 includes control 922 thatcorresponds to Washington State, and control 924 that corresponds toWashington D.C. In turn, user 926 actuates control 922 to provideadditional context information that is received and stored by thepersonalized analytics system as anecdotal data.

Now consider FIG. 10 that illustrates an example method 1000 that can beutilized to obtain narrated analytics playlists in accordance with oneor more implementations. The method can be performed by any suitablecombination of hardware, software, and/or firmware. In at least someembodiments, aspects of the method can be implemented by one or moresuitably configured hardware components and/or software modules, such asvarious hardware and/or software modules associated with servers 102and/or computing device 104 of FIG. 1, such as various modules includedin personalized analytics module 106 and/or client analytics module 108.While the method described in FIG. 10 illustrates these steps in aparticular order, it is to be appreciated that any specific order orhierarchy of the steps described here is used to illustrate an exampleof a sample approach. Other approaches may be used that rearrange theordering of these steps. Thus, the order steps described here may berearranged, and the illustrated ordering of these steps is not intendedto be limiting.

At 1002, various implementations access a personalized analytics system.For example, a client device that includes a client application of thepersonalized analytics system (e.g., client analytics module 108) and/ora browser can access a server application of the personalized analyticssystem. This can include logging on to a particular workspace associatedwith the personalized analytics system, such as through the use ofvarious types of authentication procedures. Thus, accessing thepersonalized analytics system can include logging onto a locallyexecuting application and/or accessing remote applications a furtherdescribed herein. Any suitable type of client device can be utilized,examples of which are provided herein.

In response to accessing the personalized analytics system, variousimplementations send a trigger event to the personalized analyticssystem at 1004, where the trigger event is associated with initiating,invoking, and/or performing a query analysis, such as a query analysisperformed by any combination of parser module 112, query magnifiermodule 114, and/or insight engine module 116. Various implementationsdisplay a control explicitly assigned to triggering a query analysis,such as a search box, a scheduler application, an analytic assistancecontrol, etc. Alternately or additionally, various implementationsdisplay controls that, when actuated, are implicitly interpreted as acommand to initiate, invoke, and/or perform a query analysis. In someimplementations, the trigger event includes an input query string thatis used as a basis for the query analysis, such as a search queryentered into a search box. Alternately or additionally, the input querystring used for the query analysis is automatically generated by thepersonalized analytics system, such as through the use of anecdotaldata, contextual information, etc. One or more implementations processaudible input to identify keywords associated with triggering a queryanalysis and, in response to identifying the keywords, send a triggerevent to the personalized analytics system.

At 1006, one or more implementations receive a narrated analyticsplaylist from the personalized analytics system, where the analyticsplaylist includes one or more insights generated by the personalizedanalytics system. As one non-limiting example, client analytics module108 of FIG. 1 can receive the narrated analytics playlist frompersonalized analytics module 106 over communication cloud 128. Variousimplementations base the insights off of the trigger event, informationincluded in the trigger event, derived contextual information, etc. Anarrated analytics playlist can include data in any suitable format,such as an audio clip, a video clip, a slideshow, metadata, addressinginformation, user profile identification information, etc. Variousimplementations statically bundle the content included in a narratedanalytics playlist, including information that can be utilized todynamically generate supplemental information as further describedherein.

At 1008, one or more implementations output the narrated analyticsplaylist effective to output images and audio, such as through the useof playback module 132 and/or user interface module 130 of FIG. 1. Someimplementations utilize a playback engine associated with thepersonalized analytics system such that the playback engine capturesanecdotal data about user interactions with the output content. Theplayback engine can represent any type of playback module, such asplayback module 132 of FIG. 1, playback module 1120 of FIG. 11, and/orplayback module 1800 of FIG. 18. In turn, the playback engine stores theanecdotal data within the personalized analytics system for future use.As further described herein, some implementations provide analyticassistance while outputting narrated analytics playlist content, andinterrupt the playback of the narrated analytics playlist content toinstead output the dynamically generated insights and/or responses. Asone example, the personalized analytics system can access the metadatastatically bundled with the narrated analytics playlist to dynamicallygenerate drill-up and/or drill-down content.

Having described various aspects of narrated analytics playlists,consider now a discussion of data acquisition and analysis in accordancewith one or more implementations.

Data Acquisition and Analysis

Various implementations generate narrated analytics playlists bycurating data and analyzing the curated data in various ways to identifyinsights that are relevant to a particular user profile and/orworkspace. In a statistical context, incorporating more curated data, aswell as anecdotal data, into the analysis increases the probability ofidentifying relevant and accurate insights pertaining to the userprofile. However, using more data to generate analytical reports addscomplexity to the analysis process, such as impacting how large volumesof data are acquired, sorted, classified, tagged, accessed, and soforth. To illustrate, acquiring, sorting, classifying, and analyzing twopieces of information utilizes less organization and effort relative totwo-hundred thousand pieces of information. Further, these various stepsin the analysis process factor-ally increase when the attributes of eachpiece increase in number as well. This additionally makes manuallyprocessing the data difficult and/or infeasible.

Various implementations employ a personalized analytics system toprocess, sort, classify, and/or analyze various types of data as furtherdescribed herein. In turn, the personalized analytics system improvesthe way a corresponding computing device functions by at least improvingsearch times and reducing memory space needs relative to past systems.For example, the data curation process can consolidate curated datausing a data structure that has been designed to optimally store thedata (e.g., minimal space requirements) and provide quick access to dataretrieval processes (e.g., improved cross-referencing, tag keywords,relational models, etc.). As another example, the use ofmachine-learning technologies to analyze and identify how data iscurated, to identify insights, and/or to augment the insights canenhance the speed at with these various processes are performed.

To demonstrate, consider FIG. 11 that illustrates an example blockdiagram that can be utilized to generate narrated analytics playlists inaccordance with one or more implementations. In various scenarios, theexample described with respect to FIG. 11 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-10.

FIG. 11 includes a personalized analytics system 1100 that can beimplemented using various combinations of computing devices and/ormodules, such as varying combinations of servers 102, computing device104 of FIG. 1. The personalized analytics system 1100 includes curationengine module 1102 that generally scans data sources, such as databaseand data warehouses 1104 and/or cloud applications 1106, to identifysource data that is subsequently curated and/or enriched by the curationengine module 1102 data as it is populated into the personalizedanalytics system. Any suitable type of database, data warehouse, and/orcloud application can be accessed and/or scanned for data, such asStructured Query Language (SQL) databases, enterprise data warehouses,data marts, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) based applications, Google™Cloud SQL databases, Amazon RedShift, Snowflake, Microsoft™ SQLdatabase, Sage Inacct™ Netsuite™, Salesforce etc. Curation engine module1102 can scan databases in real-time, such as in response to a queryand/or trigger event, can perform scans at scheduled intervals, canperform scans offline during idle periods when no user interaction withthe system is detected, etc.

In response to acquiring the source data, the curation engine module1102 analyzes the source data to identify characteristics and/orattributes that are then added to the source data to generate curateddata. Any type of characteristic and/or attribute can be identified,such as location information, organization information, productinformation, cross-references to other data, lifespan of the sourcedata, categorization of the source data, updates to the source data,annotations associated with the source data, identifying whether thesource data is obsolete, relationship to other source data, and soforth. In other words, the curation engine module 1102 accesses andscans various data sources for data, analyzes the data to identifyvarious characteristics about the data, and then curates and/or augmentsthe data with the identified characteristics, such as by updatingmetadata associated with the source data. Curating the source data canalternately or additionally include identifying data relationshipmodels, drill path information, periodically updating the curated data,etc.

In various implementations, curation engine module 1102 applies and/orutilizes user-defined rules, such as rules that prioritize databaseaccess, rules that prioritize what data to update more frequentlyrelative to other data, etc. For instance, a user can create a workspaceassociated with the personalized analytics system such that the userassigns each workspace to a particular database and/or data source. Thisdirects the curation engine module 1102 to curate data from theidentified data source. Alternately or additionally, the user can assigna collection of particular databases and/or data sources to theworkspace. As yet another example, a user can assign a login name andpassword to the workspace to secure and/or restrict access to curateddata so that only authorized users with valid user credentials canaccess to the curated data.

Some implementations of the curation engine module 1102 identify and/orgenerate inter-data relationship information, and store this informationin relational module 1108. Alternately or additionally, relationalmodule 1108 represents data relationships identified by the curationengine module that are used to form data structures within acorresponding database. In one or more implementations, curation enginemodule 1102 automatically triggers the data curation process withoutreceiving explicit input associated with initiating the process, butalternate or additional implementations trigger the data curationprocess in response to receiving explicit input to initiate datacuration. Access to the curated data can be restricted and/or limited toa single user profile and/or workspace, and/or can be distributed acrossmultiple user profiles and/or workspaces, such as user profiles and/orworkspaces associated with a same organization. This allows the curateddata and/or analytics generated for a first user in the organization tobe leveraged for analytics associated with a second user of theorganization, thus improving the efficiency of the personalizedanalytics system across the organization since the information isshared, rather than repeatedly generated for each user profile.

Personalized analytics system 1100 also includes parser module 1110 andquery magnifier module 1112 to analyze input query strings, and identifyvarious permutations of the input query to use in extracting informationfrom the curated data. For instance, parser module 1110 can parse inputquery strings into individual tokens and/or units, where the analyzedinput query string originates from any suitable source, such as curationengine module 1102, user-defined schedules, event-based triggers,feedback loops from other modules included in the personalized analyticssystem, etc. Thus, parsing an input query string can be done inreal-time based on receiving an explicit user-input query, based onreceiving a trigger event, based on scheduled query interval(s), basedon determining the personalized analytics system 1100 is idle (e.g., alack of user interaction with the personalized analytics system), etc.In response to parsing the input query string into individual tokens,various implementations of the parser module further analyze theindividual tokens to identify keywords, context information, etc.

Query magnifier module 1112 receives a canonical query from parsermodule 1110, such as the identified keywords, context information, etc.,and determines whether to add additional constraints and/or contextualinformation to the query, such as time ranges, location information,etc. Alternately or additionally, query magnifier module 1112 identifiesadditional attributes associated with the canonical query, acorresponding relevance of the additional attributes, and whether togenerate variations of the query using the additional attributes. Invarious implementations, query magnifier module 1112 accesses anecdotaldata to augment the query, such as a last known query time that caninfluence time constraints, a user role, a user job position, a usergroup, past user query history, a device being used to access thepersonalized analytics system, a location of the user, a businessdepartment associated with the user, a language associated with theuser, an organizational vocabulary, and so forth. Query magnifier module1112 can generate queries that are likely to be of interest to the userbased upon the distributed knowledge. Thus, various implementationsgenerate new queries, where the new queries are configured to identifynew and related subject matter, remove biases from the extractedinformation, identify efficient database query mechanisms, etc.

The newly generated queries and/or the original input query are thenused by insight engine module 1114 to extract information from thecurated data. Insight engine module 1114 analyzes the extractedinformation to identify one or more insights, such as by applyingvarious machine-learning algorithms to the extracted information. Aninsight can include any suitable type of information, such as a trend, apattern, an anomaly, an outlier, predictive behavior, a contradiction,connections, benchmarks, market segments, etc. Accordingly, an insightsometimes corresponds to an actionable finding that is based upon dataanalysis. For example, a rate of growth in sales for a productcorresponds to a factual insight that a user can base future actions offof, such as a low rate of growth indicating a change is needed, a highrate of growth indicating that current solutions are working, and soforth. Insight engine module 1114 can apply any suitable type ofmachine-learning model and/or algorithm to discover an insight, such ascluster analysis algorithms, association rule learning, anomalydetection algorithms, regression analysis algorithms, classificationalgorithms, summarization algorithms, deep learning algorithms, ensemblealgorithms, Neural Network based algorithms, regularization algorithms,rule system algorithms, regression algorithms, Bayesian algorithms,decision tree algorithms, dimensionality reduction algorithms, Instancebased algorithms, clustering algorithms, K-nearest neighbors algorithms,gradient descent algorithms, linear discriminant analysis,classification and regression trees, learning vector quantization,supporting vector machines, Bagged Decision Trees and Random Forestalgorithms, boosting, etc. While the various algorithms described hereare described in the context of being utilized to generate insights bythe insight engine module 1114, it is to be appreciated that thesealgorithms can alternately or additionally be employed in other modulesof the personalized analytics system 1100, such as a curation enginemodule 1102, a parser module 1110, query magnifier module 1112, a storynarrator module 1116, an animator module 1118, and so forth.

The insight engine module outputs the insights and/or any correspondingcontext information into a consumable format, such as a text-based form,metadata, mathematical formats, markup language, etc. In one or moreimplementations, insight engine module 1114 formats insights and/orcontextual information as a story plot to provide a basis and/or outlinefor a narrated analytics playlist.

Personalized analytics system 1100 also includes story narrator module1116 and animator module 1118 to generate a narrated analytic playlistfrom the identified insights. Story narrator module 1116 receives theoutput generated by the insight engine module 1114, and determines howto articulate, explain, and/or augment a corresponding description ofthe output. To illustrate, consider a scenario in which story narratormodule 1116 receives, from the insight engine module, an insight thatcorresponds to a graph and/or data corresponding to a sales trend for aproduct in a particular state. In response to receiving this input, thestory narrator module determines to generate a graph to visually displaythis information. Alternately or additionally, the story narrator moduledetermines that supplemental information, such as sales trends for theproduct in neighboring states, could augment, explain, or furtherclarify a context associated with the sales trend in the particularstate. Accordingly, in some implementations, the story narrator moduleincludes a feedback loop to parser module 1110, query magnifier module1112, and/or insight engine module 1114 to request additional insightinformation and/or request a query analysis be performed for thesupplemental information. In various implementations, the story narratormodule 1116 bundles and forwards information to the animator module toindicate what visual and/or audible information to include in thenarrated analytics playlist. For example, the story narrator module 1116can include charts, facts, text-based descriptive narratives, metadata,and other information corresponding to the insights, in the bundledinformation.

Animator module 1118 receives the bundled information, and uses thebundled information to generate audio and/or video outputs that areconsumable by a playback engine, such as a narrated analytics playlistthat is consumable by playback module 1120. Various implementationsalternately or additionally base the narrated analytics playlist onpredefined design themes, branding themes, etc. as further describedherein.

Various implementations of the personalized analytics system include aplayback module 1120 to output the narrated analytics playlist. Invarious implementations, the playback module receives a staticallybundled analytics playlist from the animator module, and renders thecontent as output, such as by displaying images and/outputting audiblesound. Playback module 1120 can alternately or additionally includeanecdotal learning functionality that tracks and learns user preferencesbased on user interactions, examples of which are provided herein.

The personalized analytics system 1100 also includes proximity platformmodule 1122. As further described herein, various modules included inthe personalized analytics system incorporate machine-learningalgorithms, modules, and/or models to aid in curating and/or analyzingdata. Accordingly, as the machine-learning algorithms evolve, thecorresponding output becomes more personalized, more relevant, and moreaccurate for the corresponding user profiles and/or workspaces relativeto unevolved algorithms. Proximity platform module 1122 acquires thelearned information and/or the evolved algorithm parameters withouthaving visibility into the curated data and/or queries used to generatethe learned information. To illustrate, consider a scenario in which afirst organization has sensitive sales growth charts that plot anorganization product against a competitor's product. In generating thissales growth chart, the personalized analytics system modifies variousconfigurable parameters of a machine-learning algorithm. Proximityplatform module 1122 extracts changes to the parameters and/or theabsolute values of the changed parameters without visibility into thecurated data and/or query analyses used to evolve the algorithm. Theproximity platform can then propagate these changed parameters to asecond organization or the third organization to improve how analyticplaylists are generated for these organizations without exposing thefirst company's sensitive information. Any suitable type of parametercan be extracted and propagated by the proximity platform, such asweights used in an artificial neural network, support vectors in asupport vector machine, coefficients in a linear regression or logisticregression algorithm, an assumed distribution used in a statisticalanalysis (e.g., Gaussian distribution, binomial distribution, degeneratedistribution, etc.), and so forth. Thus, aspects of the personalizedanalytics system improve the performance of various devices through thedistribution of these parameters without exposing or compromising thedata used to generate the parameters. This can include distributing theparameters to devices that are registered to different organizations asfurther described herein.

Now consider FIG. 12 that illustrates a more detailed example of acuration engine module in accordance with one or more implementations.In various scenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 12 canbe considered a continuation of one or more examples described withrespect to FIGS. 1-11.

FIG. 12 includes an example curation engine module 1200 that generallyscans data sources to acquire and populate basic metadata about thedata. This can include identifying attributes of the data and populatingthe metadata with the attributes. In various scenarios, curation enginemodule 1200 is representative of curation engine module 110 of FIG. 1and/or curation engine module 1102 of FIG. 11. Some implementations ofthe curation engine module programmatically access databases, such asvia an SQL interface of a database, to scan and/or analyze data tocurate. The curation engine module uses the analysis to identify variousattributes of the data and populate metadata with the identifiedattributes. In some implementations, the curation engine moduleidentifies primary attributes associated with the data, and thenidentifies secondary attributes related to the primary attributes. Inturn, the curation engine module updates the corresponding metadata. Thecuration of data and/or what data is accessible to a particular userprofile and/or workspace can be based off of any suitable type ofcharacteristic, such as characteristics associated with a particularuser profile and/or organization profile, what type of software has beendeployed to the particular user profile, what software features of thepersonalized analytics system are available to the particular userprofile, what software version has been deployed, what machine-learningmodules are available, etc. Thus, the curation engine module may notprovide a particular user profile and/or workspace with access to all ofthe curated data, depending upon what level of access the user profilehas been assigned.

In one or more implementations, the curation engine module 1200 basesthe curation of data on a corresponding workspace associated with theparticular user. As further described herein, a user can create one ormore workspaces that define data source address(es) to include, databasename(s), security authentication parameters for access to the workspace,read only and/or write permissions, and so forth. In various scenariosthe curation engine module bases data curation on the user-definedparameters for a particular workspace. Alternately or additionally,curation engine module accesses anecdotal data associated with theworkspace to influence and/or weigh what attributes of the curated dataare added to the corresponding metadata. In various implementations, thecuration engine module identifies related attributes of the user-definedparameters and/or anecdotal data to influence how data is curated and/orwhat attributes are added to the metadata in the curation process.

Curation engine module 1200 curates and adds attribute information tometadata associated with the data. In one or more implementation, thecurated attributes include usage-based information, such as contextinformation associated with input interactions, business domaininformation, component rankings, metric-based usage rankings (e.g.,click-stream analysis, scored queries, playback rankings, etc.),knowledge graph attributes, and so forth. Alternately or additionally,the curated attributes include dictionary-based information (e.g.,alternates words, synonyms, hyponyms, alternate industry words, verbiagepreferences, etc.), access restrictions, data inferences (e.g., a dataquality rankings, such as by applying various algorithms that determinehow reliable the associated data is, an accuracy of the data determinedthrough a verification process, a relevancy of the data relative to aparticular keyword, an interpretability ranking of the data, howflexible the data is relative to a consistent taxonomy associated withcontext for the data, etc.), indications of whether the data is internalor external to an organization, whether the data type is commonly used,whether the data information has a common name, etc. In turn, curationengine module 1200 analyzes the curated data and/or attributes todetermine and output relational data models. This can include applyingmachine-learning algorithms to the curated data and/or attributes togenerate the relational data models stored via curated relational datamodel database 1202.

Curated relational data model database 1202 represents a database thatincludes the data relational models generated by curation engine module1200. Generally, data relational models correspond to logicalrepresentations of information generated by assigning one or moreattributes to data as further described herein. For example, a firstdata point can be assigned an attribute of being a parent data source,while a second data point is assigned an attribute of being a child datapoint of the first data point. While described here in the context of aparent/child relationship between data points, it is to be appreciatedthat this is merely for discussion purposes, and alternate types ofrelationship attributes can be modeled and/or identified. The datarelational models alternately or additionally assign data types to thedata. In some scenarios, curated relational data model database 1202describes the relationships between data through the use of tablesand/or data structures, where the format of the tables and/or structuresdescribe relational information. Alternately or additionally, curatedrelational data model database 1202 stores the schema of the relationaldata model that is followed when storing curated data into a database.Other entities can then programmatically extract the relationshipinformation from curated relational data model database 1202 through theuse of one or more database interfaces, such as SQL interfaces, and acorresponding query. To identify and assign the attributes used in thecurated relational data model database, curation engine module 1200utilizes multiple types of processing and/or information.

Curation engine module includes an entity-relationship (ER) modelgeneration module 1204 that identifies a domain or topic of interest,and then specifies a relationship model for the domain or topic. Forinstance, the ER model generation module 1204 can specify therelationships between different data types associated with acorporation, such as employee data types, employee attributes, customerdata types, customer attributes, vendor data types, vendor attributes,etc. In various implementations, the ER model generation module 1204uses a schema to describe the model, such as by using the schema toidentify associations and dependencies between entities, where an entitycan correspond to a physical object (e.g., a product), an event (e.g., asale or service), a concept (e.g., a transaction or order), and soforth. In various implementations, the schema assigns attributes to dataassociations and/or entities. To illustrate, the schema can be used toassign an employee number attribute to an employee entity, a dataattribute to a product sales entity, and so forth. While described herein the context of a schema, it is to be appreciated that ER models canbe defined using any type of diagramming techniques and/or schemas, suchas Bachman notation, Barker's notation, Unified Modeling Language (UML),Object-role modeling (ORM), Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema,etc. The relationship model generated by the ER model generation module1204 is then used as a basis for defining a data structure for storingdata in a corresponding database, such as curated relational data modeldatabase 1202.

Curation engine module 1200 also includes a user activity knowledgebasemodule 1206 to provide contextual information that is used in datacuration as further described herein. The user activity knowledgebaseincludes anecdotal data associated with a particular user profile,workspace, organization profile, and so forth. While the user activityknowledgebase is illustrated here as residing within the curation enginemodule, it is to be appreciated that the information included in theknowledgebase can originate from any suitable data source. As oneexample, the user anecdotal data collected with respect to FIG. 9 can beincluded in user activity knowledgebase module 1206.

The curation engine module 1200 also utilizes existing attributes andreports module 1208 to identify attributes and/or build curated data.For example, the curation engine module 1200 can access existingreports, existing dashboard information, and/or existing databases toaugment the existing metadata and/or create new attributes, newmetadata, etc. Alternately or additionally, the curation engine module1200 uses the existing attributes and/or reports to influence whatattributes and/or reports are generated by future query analyses.

The curation engine module 1200 creates attributes for the curated datavia attribute generation module 1210. In one example, the curationengine module uses ER models generated by ER model generation module1204 to determine what attributes to identify for the data being curatedand/or analyzed, and then updates the metadata with the identifiedattributes. Alternately or additionally, the curation engine modulecreates drill-up paths and/or drill-down paths via the drill pathgeneration module 1212. To generate drill path information, variousimplementations identify a particular object, and use the relationshipdata, such as those defined by the ER model generation module 1204, todetermine drill-up and/or drill-down paths. As an example, drill pathscan include a breakdown of a particular attribute associated with anentity, such as a geography-based breakdown. Various implementationsupdate the corresponding metadata to reflect the identified drill pathinformation.

Curation engine module 1200 also includes vocabulary generation module1214 that determines alternate wording options for the data and/orinformation being curated. For example, various natural languageprocessing algorithms and/or models can be employed to identify similarwording, such as sematic matching algorithms, approximate stringmatching, text classifier algorithms, word2vec algorithms, latentsemantic analysis, clustering algorithms, bag-of-words models,document-term matrices, automatic summarization algorithms, taggingoperations, etc. Curation engine module 1200 applies the alternatewordings in the curation process as a way to identify similar dataand/or entities, and then adds the information generated using thealternate wordings into the various facets of curating data. As oneexample, a company entitled “My Big Company” can alternately be referredto as “MBG”, “My Big Co.”, “Big Co.”, and so forth. Vocabularygeneration module 1214 discerns when information with alternate namingconventions apply to a same entity, and builds corresponding attributesand/or relationship information to combine and/or associate theinformation from different sources of information to a same data pointand/or entity, thus further enriching the information about that entity.

In various implementations, curation engine module 1200 includes a timeengine generation module 1216 that identifies and/or curates informationabout the data over time spans. Consider a scenario in which thecuration process identifies a sales metric for a particular product.Time engine generation module 1216 augments and/or enhances the salesmetric to provide more particular information about the sales metricover a span of time, such as day-to-day sales metrics over a month, arunning average over a year, monthly sales metrics, etc.

The curation engine module 1200 also generates Key PerformanceIndicators (KPIs) through the use of domain KPI generation module 1218.Generally, a KPI denotes a performance measurement associated with aparticular activity or scope (e.g., an organization, a product, aperson, etc.). A KPI can correspond to any suitable type of performancemetric, such as an attrition rate, a turnover rate, a quality rate, acycle time ratio, a utilization rate, a mean time between productfailures, an average time to product delivery, a cost savings metric,employee performance indicators, etc. Various implementations of thedomain KPI generation module 1218 utilize user profile information togenerate the performance indicators. Consider the scenario in which auser logs into a particular workspace. The particular workspace canstore anecdotal information, such as domain information (e.g.,organization, customer base, product focus, job title, etc.) that isthen used by the domain KPI generation module to predict what businessmetrics may be request from that particular workspace. In turn, KPIgeneration module 1218 produces business metrics based upon anticipatingwhat information is relevant to the user and/or in response to the usermanually requesting the metrics. Accordingly, domain KPI generationmodule 1218 can include any suitable type of algorithm to generate theKPIs, such as cash flow KPIs, churn KPIs, Human Resources KPIs, benefitsKPIs, project value KPIs, healthcare KPIs, etc.

Curation engine module 1200 alternately or additionally includes metricsgeneration module 1220 to generate other types of statistics and/ormetrics not generated via domain KPI generation module 1218. Similar todomain KPI generation module 1218, metrics generation module 1220 caninclude any suitable number of algorithms, each of which are used togenerate a corresponding metric, such as average, sum, derivatives, logpercentile, ratios, and so forth. These metrics and/or statistics can bedomain-specific, domain-independent, user-specific, user-independent,and so forth. In various implementations, domain KPI generation module1218 and metrics generation module 1220 exchange information to generatea resultant metric. For instance, domain KPI generation module 1218 canrequest average sum information from metrics generation module 1220.

Normalizing data that is stored in a database helps remove biases and/orundesired characteristics that potentially reduce the integrity and/orquality of data stored in a database. Accordingly, curation enginemodule 1200 includes machine-learning (ML) and principle-componentanalysis (PCA) module 1222 to normalize the curated data being stored incurated relational data model database 1202. This can includeidentifying and removing anomalies, removing redundant data, simplifyingdata mapping, validating data dependencies, etc. Various implementationsrestructure the data stored in curated relational data model database1202 based upon the normalization process. ML and PCA module 1222include various statistical procedures and/or machine-learningalgorithms that can be used to organize the curated data as it is storedin curated relational data model database 1202. This can includealgorithms that apply First Normal Form (1NF) Rules, Second Normal Form(2NF) Rules, Third Normal Form (3NF) Rules, Boyce-Codd Normal Form(BCNF) Rules, and so forth.

Each module described with respect to curation engine module 1200 can beimplemented in any suitable manner, such as through any combination ofsoftware, hardware, and/or firmware. This can include storage memorydevices that store data, storage memory devices that storeprocessor-executable instructions, and/or various types of hardwareprocessing systems as further described herein. Further, each of themodules illustrated as residing within the curation engine module can beimplemented collectively on a single device and/or in a distributedmanner across multiple devices. To demonstrate, various implementationscan utilize any suitable combination of servers 102 and/or computingdevice 104 of FIG. 1.

Various implementations trigger various query analyses on the curateddata generated by curation engine module 1200. FIG. 13 illustrates amore detailed example of a parser module 1300 that can receive an inputquery associated with a trigger event, and analyze the input query inorder to initiate the analysis process. In various scenarios, theexample described with respect to FIG. 13 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-12. Thus, in some implementations, parser module 1300 isrepresentative of parser module 112 of FIG. 1 and/or parser module 1110of FIG. 11.

As further described herein, a personalized analytics system determinesinsights that are relevant to a particular user profile, workspace,and/or organization profile using curated data to generate a narratedanalytics playlist relevant to a particular user profile. In somescenarios, an input query triggers the analysis process. In FIG. 13,trigger event 1302 corresponds to any suitable type of trigger eventthat triggers a query analysis, examples of which are provided herein.Here, trigger event 1302 includes an input query string 1304 that formsa basis for the subsequent analysis process.

Various implementations parse input query string 1304 into individualtokens and/or units via tagger and tokenizer module 1306. Accordingly,tagger and tokenizer module 1306 includes language processing algorithmsto analyze a sequence of characters included in input query string 1304,to identify a grouping of characters as words, separators, commands, andso forth. To demonstrate, input query string 1304 as illustrated in FIG.13 includes the string of characters “Has Product X been selling well?”Tagger and tokenizer module 1306 scans the string of characters toidentify and classify each word, such as “Product” as a word, “selling”as an action word, etc.

Parser module 1300 also includes keyword breakdown and ranking module1308 that receives the output of word identification and classificationfrom tagger and tokenizer module 1306, and identifies keywords and/orcontextual information to determine relevant words to base a searchanalysis off of. This can include using natural language processing(NLP) algorithms, word2vec algorithms, and so forth. Determiningrelevant keywords sometimes involves ranking identified words, and/oraccess ranking information generated by the curation engine, todetermine whether the identified keywords are statistically likely toreturn successful results (e.g., results and/or words that fall within apredefined threshold associated with returning successful results). Inresponse to identifying keywords that are statistically likely to returnsuccessful results, the keyword breakdown and ranking module 1308assigns these words as ones to use in a query analysis. In response toidentifying keywords with low success rates (e.g., a success rate thatfalls below a predefined threshold), the keyword breakdown and rankingmodule 1308 tags those keywords as candidates for replacement and/orreplaces the keywords with similar words and/or phrases that have ahigher success rate. Accordingly, in various implementations, keywordbreakdown and ranking module 1308 generates a modified input query thatincludes the replacement words and/or generates additional queriesrelative to input query string 1304 with the replacement words. Thesemodified input queries and/or newly generated queries are then passed toa query magnifier to augment and/or enrich the queries.

In one or more implementations, the modified input and/or newlygenerated queries are formatted as canonical queries that includeidentifying information about the input query, illustrated here ascanonical query 1310. For example, using a markup language, thecanonical query can include tags that identify keywords, sortedparameters, actions, timestamps, authentication tokens, etc. Thus,canonical query 1310 is representative of any suitable type of data thatcan be used to convey a canonical query, and can include additionalinformation generated by the tagger and tokenizer module 1306 and/orkeyword breakdown and ranking module 1308. While FIG. 13 illustrates asingle canonical query output, it is to be appreciated that this is fordiscussion purposes, and that a parser module can generate any suitablenumber of canonical queries without departing from the scope of theclaimed subject matter.

Now consider FIG. 14 that illustrates an example query magnifier module1400 that is in accordance with one or more implementations. In variousscenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 14 can beconsidered a continuation of one or more examples described with respectto FIGS. 1-13. Thus, in some implementations, query magnifier module1400 is representative of query magnifier module 114 of FIG. 1 and/orquery magnifier module 1112 of FIG. 11.

Query magnifier module 1400 receives canonical query 1310 from FIG. 13as an input, and augments the query based upon various analyses. Variousimplementations identify how to augment and/or add contextual parametersthe query using constraints identification module 1402, relatedattributes identification module 1404, query generation module 1406,relational parser and normalizer module 1408, and/or optimal queryscript generation module 1410. While augmenting the query can includeadding search constraints, user preferences, contextual parameters,alternate keywords, etc., various implementations augment the query byidentifying and/or generating commands that efficiently extractinformation from the curated data.

Constraints identification module 1402 analyzes the canonical query todetermine whether contextual information is missing from the query,examples of which are provided herein. Alternately or additionally,constraints identification module 1402 identifies new constraints to addto the query. For instance, if canonical query 1310 includes a timeconstraint, such as “sales over the last month”, various implementationsof the constraints identification module add shorter and longer timeconstraints to generate additional information, such as a week timeconstraint, a yearly time constraint, etc. The identification ofadditional and/or new constraints can sometimes be based off ofanecdotal data, such as timeframes most often requested from aparticular user profile, competitor products most often requested by theparticular user profile, etc. These additions and/or modifications arethen used to generate additional information. In a similar manner,related attributes identification module 1404 identifies existingattributes corresponding to the canonical query, and extrapolates theattributes to related variations, such as adding additional productcategories to the input search, additional state attributes, etc. Insome implementations, constraints identification module 1402 identifiessubject matter that is accessible and/or inaccessible to the userprofile, such as through the use of access control inclusion rulesand/or access control exclusion rules, that define what a particularuser profile and/or workspace can and cannot have access to in thecurated data, and governs the extraction of curated data accordingly,such as by modifying search query input keywords, modifying programmaticaccess to sections of a database, etc.

Canonical query 1310, as well as the keyword identifications, keywordrankings, identified constraints, and/or the identified relatedattributes, are then fed into query generation module 1406. In turn,query generation module 1406 generates variations of each query that arethen used to extract information from the curated data. These variationscan be passed into the insight engine, generally indicated here as query1412-1. Alternately or additionally, the variations are passed intorelational parser and normalizer module 1408 to remove biases that maynegatively impact the quality of results. The normalized queries canalternately or additionally be passed into optimal query scriptgenerator module 1410 to identify efficient database query mechanisms,such as by removing repetitive database access commands, consolidatingdata extraction, etc. In turn, the queries generated by optimal queryscript generation module 1410, generally indicated here as query 1412-2,can alternately or additionally be passed to the insight engine modulefor extracting information from the curated data.

Parser module 1300 and query magnifier module 1400 work in concert togenerate queries that can be used to identify queries that efficientlyand accurately extract curated data for insight generation, such as byidentifying alternate wording with higher success rates, identifyingrelated subject matter, and so forth. In implementations, the queryingprocessing can be adaptive to optimize the runtime conditions ofapplications executing as part of a workload layer of cloud-basedservice. According, in various implementations, query processingoperations associated with parser module 1300 and/or query magnifiermodule 1400 can employ batch mode adaptive joining techniques (e.g.,generating execution plans for one or more specific queries) and selecta plan estimated to use the lowest processing cost and memory grantfeedback (e.g., a minimum memory required by the system to executeparticular querying operations and/or other workload operations). Inturn, this improves the efficiency of the personalized analytics systemand/or the computing devices that are used to implement the personalizedanalytics system.

Now consider FIG. 15 that illustrates an example insight engine module1500 that is in accordance with one or more implementations. In variousscenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 15 can beconsidered a continuation of one or more examples described with respectto FIGS. 1-14. Thus, in some implementations, insight engine module 1500is representative of insight engine module 116 of FIG. 1 and/or insightengine module 1114 of FIG. 11.

Insight engine module 1500 receives query 1412-1 and/or query 1412-2 ofFIG. 14, and submits the queries to a database to extract information,such as curated relational data model database 1202 of FIG. 12. In turn,the insight engine module 1500 selects and runs various algorithms at1504 on the data, such as machine-learning algorithms, to identify aresult to the query. In turn, at 1506, the insight engine moduleanalyzes the data and/or results generated by the various algorithms at1504. The analysis results the insight engine module identifying varioustypes of insights at 1508 as further described herein. In somescenarios, the analysis at 1506 and/or the identification of insights at1508 cause the insight engine module 1500 to tune hyper-parameters of acorresponding algorithm at 1510. For example, in response to applyingthe algorithms to the extracted (curated) data, contextual data and/oranecdotal data through one or more machine-learning modules at 1504, theinsight engine module 1500 generates an insight and/or prediction. Thegenerated insight and/or prediction then evaluated during the analysisat 1506, such as by comparing the generated insight and/or prediction toactual values to evaluate an accuracy of the prediction and/or insight.The accuracy evaluation can then be used to adjust and/or tune thehyper-parameters until best values for the predictions, insights, and/orhyper-parameters are achieved. Here, the phrase “best values” is used todenote values that result in minimal accuracy error relative to othervalues. Some implementations extract and share the hyper-parameters withother user profiles, workspaces, and/or organization profiles, such asby way of the proximity platform as further described herein.

The process implemented by insight engine module 1500 corresponding torunning algorithms at 1504, analyzing data at 1506, identifying insightsat 1508, and tuning hyper parameters at 1510 can be an iterativeprocess, and can be achieved in any suitable manner. For example,various implementations utilize the combination of a processor andprocessor-executable instructions that drive the behavior of theprocessor, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof, to implementthe algorithms, to extract the information from the curated data, etc.Examples of such implementations are further illustrated and describedin FIGS. 33 and 34. Alternately or additionally, the process combinesinformation from the multiple queries in a statistical manner. Forexample, consider a scenario in which the query magnifier module 1400 ofFIG. 14 receives a single input query and generates “n” variations ofthe input query, where “n” represents an arbitrary value. Eachrespective query of the “n” variations can be run through the processassociated with the insight engine module such that the correspondingalgorithm output, data analysis, insight identification, and/orhyper-parameter tuning combines and/or collectively analyzes the outputsof each respective query. The insight engine module 1500 then outputsone or more insights 1512 that correspond to the insights identified inthe process, where the insights can be described using textual output,markup output, metadata, etc. In various implementations, the insightsare formatted into a story plot that provides a basic (e.g.,un-augmented) outline for a playlist. These insights are then forwardedto a story narrator module for processing.

Consider now FIG. 16 that illustrates an example story narrator module1600 that is in accordance with one or more implementations. In somescenarios, story narrator module 1600 is representative of storynarrator module 118 of FIG. 1 and/or story narrator module 1116 of FIG.11. In various scenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 16can be considered a continuation of one or more examples described withrespect to FIGS. 1-15. Story narrator module 1600 representsfunctionality that determines how to articulate and/or describe theinsights received from the insight engine module, such as whatvisualizations to include in the narrated analytics playlist (e.g.,charts, graphs, images, tables, etc.), what summarization of facts toinclude, the detailed narrative descriptions, etc. In other words, thestory narrator module determines augmentation content (e.g., thevisualizations, the summarizations, the charts, etc.) for the insights.In this example, story narrator module 1600 receives insights 1512 ofFIG. 15. The story narrator module 1600 includes storyline organizationmodule 1602, concept creation design module 1604, vocabulary and SpeechSynthesis Markup Language (SSML) generation module 1606, and chartgeneration module 1608 that collectively work together to generatescripts that are used to generate narrated analytic playlists. As partof the generation process, various implementations access one or moredatabases that include data related to the insight(s). For example, someimplementations of story narrator module 1600 access learningdatabase(s) 1610 to acquire anecdotal data associated with a particularuser profile the playlist is being designed for to determine what itemsto include or exclude from the playlist. Alternately or additionally,story narrator module 1600 accesses design theme database(s) 1612 toobtain formatting information for the playlist, such as colors,backgrounds, font types and size, watermarks, etc. As yet anotheroption, story narrator module 1600 can access branding theme database(s)1614 to acquire images, text, copyrighted images, and so forth, toinclude in the playlist.

Storyline organization module 1602 receives the insights and/or storyplots from the insight engine, and determines an outline, plot, and/orcomponents to include in a playlist that help explain the variousinsights. This can include supplemental information, contextualinformation, etc. In one or more implementations, the storylineorganization module 1602 accesses metadata associated with the insightsto identify primary attributes (e.g., main attributes associated with aninsight) and/or secondary attributes (e.g., attributes of the mainattributes). In turn, these attributes can be used to determine whatvisualizations to include in the narrated analytics playlist and/or whatsupplemental queries to request information to augment to the narratedanalytics playlist. Some implementations of the storyline organizationmodule 1602 apply computational algorithms to the attributes and/orcorresponding text as a way to generate a corresponding plot outline.Any suitable type of computational and/or story generator algorithm canbe utilized, such as Propps algorithms, Natural Language Generation(NLG) algorithms, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) algorithms, probabilisticcontext free grammars (PCFGs) algorithms, etc. In one or moreimplementations, the storyline organization module 1602 identifies oneor more advertisements to include in the narrated analytics playlist,such as by analyzing anecdotal information associated with thecorresponding user profile, analyzing metadata to identify relevantadvertisements, etc.

Concept creation design module 1604 receives an augmented story outlinefrom the storyline organization module 1602, and determines whatadditional design detail to include in the story outline, such as adesign details on which chart to include, what ordering, what drill-downor drill-up information to include in the design, etc. For example,concept creation design module 1604 can analyze the augmented storyoutline and/or the corresponding metadata to determine related KPIs,attributes, apply entity linking algorithms, etc. In variousimplementations, the concept creation design module accesses learningdatabase(s) 1610, design themes database(s) 1612, and/or branding themesdatabase(s) 1614 to design how the plot outline is presented. In one ormore implementations, the concept creation design module 1604 requestsadditional information from the parser module 1110, query magnifiermodule 1112, and/or insight engine module 1114 of FIG. 11.

Vocabulary and SSML generation module 1606 generates narrativedescriptions that describe the plot outline and/or the augmented plotoutline generated by the concept creation design module 1604. In variousimplementations, the vocabulary and SSML generation module 1606generates multiple narrative descriptions of varying narration levelsfor a corresponding topic and/or playlist (e.g., minimal narration,medium narration, verbose narration) and statically bundles the multiplenarrative descriptions with the narrated analytics playlist such that arecipient user profile has an ability to provide input that selectswhich level of narration to output during playback. Alternately oradditionally, the vocabulary and SSML generation module accesses auser-defined setting that identifies a narration level, and generates acorresponding narrative description based upon the user-defined setting.This can include the vocabulary and SSML generation module 1606accessing the metadata associated with the insights and/or augmentedstory outline to generate the narrative description. Accordingly,various implementations employ machine-learning algorithms that evolvegrammar knowledge, language pattern algorithms, syntactic and/orstructural pattern recognition algorithms, and so forth, as a way tooutput descriptions of the storyline plot and/or design.

Chart generation module 1608 generates visuals that are included in thecorresponding playlist. In various implementations, the concept creationdesign module 1604 interfaces and/or communicates the desired charts toinclude to chart generation module 1608, such as by updating metadata toindicate the desired charts, sending commands to generate the charts,etc. In turn, the chart generation module 1608 access the correspondingmetadata to obtain data used to generate the charts, graphs, images,etc. Alternately or additionally, chart generation module 1608 generatescaptions for charts. As an example, for a chart that illustrates monthlyrevenues for a calendar year (January thru August), the chart generationmodule 1608 can generate the captions “Revenues monthly from January2018 to August 2018”, “Monthly Revenues Jan-Aug 2018”, or “RevenuesJanuary thru August 2018 monthly” based on the metadata, insights, etc.Vocabulary and SSML generation module 1606 can alternately oradditionally generate short narration that describes the chart (e.g.,“Peak Sales months are Apr 2018 and July 2018, while the year-to-dateincrease in sales was 4.3%”) as well as long narration that describesthe chart (e.g., “Monthly revenues have a consistent positive growthwith April and July being the best months. The year to date sales growthis 4.3% across 8 months and the total sales being 24.3 milliondollars”). Both the short narration and the long narration can bestatically bundled with the narrated analytics playlist to allow a userto select more than one narration mode, thus enhancing the userexperience. In some implementations, the chart generation moduleextracts summary points from a chart to use as short-narrations that canbe displayed by the personalized analytics system as bulleted points.

Collectively, these modules generate scripts 1616 which are thendelivered to an animator module to generate the narration analyticsplaylist. Scripts 1616 can include any suitable type of information,such as charts, narrative descriptions, storyline plots, designinformation, etc. In various implementations, scripts 1616 indicates notonly what type of information is included in the narrated analyticsplaylist, but what order the information is presented in, wheninformation is output simultaneously (e.g., audible outputsimultaneously with particular graphics), when to transition from afirst piece of information to a second piece of information, and soforth. This can be achieved in any suitable manner, such as by markingtransition and/or trigger points with flag data, identifying a timeduration for each piece of information, etc.

Now consider FIG. 17 that illustrates an example animator module 1700 inaccordance with one or more implementations. In some scenarios, animatormodule 1700 is representative of animator module 120 of FIG. 1 and/oranimator module 1118 of FIG. 11. In various scenarios, the exampledescribed with respect to FIG. 17 can be considered a continuation ofone or more examples described with respect to FIGS. 1-16.

Animator module 1700 receives scripts 1616 of FIG. 16, and generates acorresponding playlist from the scripts. Accordingly, animator module1700 includes screen generation module 1702 and audio generation module1704.

Screen generation module 1702 generates visual content that is includedin the playlist. This can include accessing learning database 1610,design themes database(s) 1612, and/or branding themes database(s) 1614of FIG. 16 to identify images, colors, formatting, user preferences,etc. to include in the visual content. For example, screen generationmodule 1702 can analyze an input script and identify keywords, such asproduct information, company information, location information, etc. Inturn, screen generation module 1702 accesses corresponding databases toobtain images related to these keywords.

Audio generation module 1704 converts the descriptions generated byvocabulary and SSML generation module 1606 of FIG. 16 into an audibleform. One or more implementations include text-to-speech algorithms togenerate audible output. In scenarios in which the statically bundledcontent includes multiple narrative descriptions, the audio generationmodule 1704 selects one of the narrative descriptions, such as theverbose narrative description, to convert into audible output. Theaudible output description can be in any suitable language, such as adefault language (e.g., English) and/or a user-defined language (e.g.,French, German, Mandarin), where audio generation module 1704 includesmachine-learning algorithms corresponding to the selected language. Insome implementations, the audible output can be customized via alternateor additional user-defined settings, such as a gender-voice setting,output pace setting, verbal tone, etc. Collectively, these modulesoutput a narrated analytics playlist 1706 that provides informationcorresponding to an input query in a video form. In turn, variousplayback engines can render the corresponding images and/or output thecorresponding audio.

FIG. 18 illustrates an example playback module 1800 in accordance withone or more implementations. In some scenarios, playback module 1800 isrepresentative of playback module 132 of FIG. 1 and/or playback module1120 of FIG. F11. In various scenarios, the example described withrespect to FIG. 18 can be considered a continuation of one or moreexamples described with respect to FIGS. 1-17.

Playback module 1800 generally represents functionality that outputsimages and/or audio corresponding to a narrated analytics playlist. Inthis example, playback module 1800 includes an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)player 1802, interactive controls 1804, supplemental interactions module1806, anecdotal learning module 1808, and playback analytics capturemodule 1510.

HLS player 1802 renders and/or outputs playlist contents. In variousimplementations, HLS player 1802 streams content corresponding to anarrative analytics playlist over a network connection, such as anetwork connection to servers 102 of FIG. 1. HLS player 1802 can beimplemented as a stand-alone application, as a player that is integratedinto a web browser, as a client application that connects to a serverapplication, etc. In response to receiving content, the HLS playerrenders images as specified by the content. Alternately or additionally,the HLS player outputs synchronized audio.

Interactive controls 1804 provide user-accessible controls that modifyplayback of content. For example, interactive controls 1804 visuallyrender software controls that pause, start, stop, forward, and/or rewindthe playback of content. Interactive controls 1804 can alternately oradditionally include audio controls, such as software controls thatincrease, decrease, and/or mute audio output levels. In someimplementations, interactive controls 1804 provide navigation features,such as file navigation.

Similar to interactive controls 1804, supplemental interactions module1806 provides user-accessible controls. Here, the user-accessiblecontrols correspond to interactions with the personalized analyticssystem, such as a search query to trigger a query analysis, a chartrequest, a request for drill-up content and/or drill-down content, etc.Accordingly, various implementations allow for the generation ofsupplemental information during the playback of a narrated analyticsplaylist as further described herein.

Anecdotal learning module 1808 tracks information corresponding to userinteractions with and/or input to playback module 1800, such asinteractions with interactive controls 1804 and/or supplementalinteractions module 1806. Alternately or additionally, anecdotallearning module 1808 gathers contextual information about when theseinteractions happen, what content is currently being output, whether theinteraction can be implicitly and/or explicitly identified as positivefeedback, negative feedback, etc. In various implementations, theinformation tracked by anecdotal learning module 1808 is stored withcurated data and/or forwarded to cloud-based services as furtherdescribed herein.

Playback analytics capture module 1810 enables the playback module tocapture screen content, such as through control 910 of FIG. 9. Variousimplementations of playback analytics capture module 1810 not onlycapture screen content and/or audible content when initiated, butalternately or additionally capture additional information about thecaptured content, such as metadata, insight information, etc. In somescenarios, playback analytics capture module 1810 triggers a queryanalysis based upon the captured content and/or the additionalinformation as further described herein.

To further demonstrate how various modules interact with one another toprovide narrated analytic playlists, consider now FIG. 19 thatillustrates an example block diagram 1900 in accordance with one or moreimplementations. In some scenarios, block diagram 1900 can be considereda continuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-18.

Block diagram 1900 includes query handler 1902 that generally handlesany type of query input and/or query trigger into the personalizedanalytics system. In one or more implementations, query handler 1902represents a library of callable application programming interfaces(APIs) that can be used by other software, hardware, and/or firmwaremodule to trigger the analytics process and/or input a query string.Alternately or additionally, query handler 1902 includes audibleinterfaces, touch screen interfaces, programmatic interfaces, imageprocessing, audio processing, and so forth, which enable query handlerto receive and identify query inputs. In various implementations, queryhandler 1902 and/or other modules of the personalized analytics systemare implemented on various devices of an IoT network (e.g., Zibgee,Z-wave, Thread, Weave, etc.). This allows the personalized analyticssystem to perform various functionality in a distributed manner and/oron devices that are dedicated to a particular purpose. Thus, variousimplementations utilize an IoT device dedicated to performingfunctionality associated with query handler 1902. As another example ofutilizing IoT devices, a first device of the IoT can be a computingdevice dedicated to collecting data which is then transferred to asecond device of the IoT associated with curating the data (e.g.,curation engine module 110 of FIG. 1, curation engine module 1102 ofFIG. 11, and/or curation engine module 1200 of FIG. 12). Continuing on,trigger events 1904 represent example events that trigger a queryanalysis and/or the generation of a narrated analytics playlist inaccordance with one or more implementations. Here, trigger events 1904include scheduled trigger events that correspond to user-definedschedules that indicate when to generate a narrated analytics playlistand/or perform the analysis associated with generating the narratedanalytics playlist. Trigger events 1904 also include calendar scantrigger events that represent trigger events automatically generated bythe personalized analytics system in response to a scan of a user'scalendar as further described herein. Voice query trigger events andtext/NLP query trigger events correspond to manual input to thepersonalized analytics system, such as audible input with an explicitquery request, text strings input into a search field, etc. Triggerevents 1904 also include programmatic trigger events, generallyrepresented here as API query trigger events, that enable thepersonalized analytics system to receive a query request and/or triggerevent programmatically. In a similar manner, ML algorithm-based triggerevents correspond to programmatic trigger events generated by amachine-learning algorithm requesting more information, such as amachine-learning algorithm employed in the concept creation designmodule 1604 of FIG. 14 requesting more information, a machine learningalgorithm employed in the insight engine module 1500 of FIG. 15requesting more information, etc. Video interactions trigger events,podcast interactions trigger events, and home assistance deviceinteractions trigger events correspond to implicit trigger eventscorresponding to the personalized analytics system identifying implicitfeedback via video playback, via audible playback, and/or via homeassistant interactions. Alternately or additionally, the videointeractions, podcast interactions, and/or home assistant deviceinteractions can include explicit feedback, examples of which areprovided herein. Trigger events 1904 also include browser interactionstrigger events and mobile interactions trigger events that correspond tothe personalized analytics system implicitly triggering a query analysisand/or generation of a narrated analytics playlist in response toidentifying implicit feedback when interacting with a browser and/or amobile device. Query handler 1902 includes any combination of software,firmware, and/or hardware that enables these various types of triggerevents to interface with the personalized analytics system to triggerand/or initiate a query as further described herein.

In response to receiving any of the trigger events 1904, thepersonalized analytics system forwards the corresponding input query toparser 1906 for analysis. In response to analyzing the input query,parser 1906 outputs a canonical query 1908 that is utilized as an inputto query magnifier 1910. Canonical query 1908 can be formed using anysuitable type of data structure that can be utilized to storeinformation, examples of which are provided herein.

Query magnifier 1910 receives the canonical query 1908, and augments thequery and/or generates variations of the query with additional subjectmatter (e.g., context information, additional constraints, alternateand/or related attributes, preferences, etc.). Thus, query magnifier1910 outputs augmented queries 1912, which can alternately oradditionally represent raw data identified during the analysis process.Augmented queries 1912 can include optimized database accessinstructions that pull information from a database in a more efficientmanner (e.g., faster, less data, more concise data, more informativedata, etc.) relative to un-optimized database access instructions.Augmented queries 1912 can be formed using any suitable type of datastructure that can be utilized to store information, examples of whichare provided herein.

Augmented queries 1912 are input to insight engine 1914 which, in turn,pulls information from a database and analyzes the data to not only findan answer to a query, but alternately or additionally identify one ormore insights 1916 associated with the query, examples of which areprovided herein. Some implementations of the insight engine formatinsights 1916 as a story plot that provides a basic outline, withoutaugmentation, for a playlist. Various implementations of insight engine1914 extract and analyze data curated by curation engine 1918 as furtherdescribed herein. Insights 1916 can be formed using any suitable type ofdata structure that can be utilized to store information, examples ofwhich are provided herein.

Story narrator 1920 receives the one or more insights 1916 and generatesscripts 1922 that can be utilized to generate a narrated analyticsplaylist. As further described herein, scripts 1922 can include anoutline of events to include in the narrated analytics playlist, a textform of a narrated description, a chart, keywords, and so forth. In oneor more implementations, scripts 1922 correspond to an augmented versionof the story plot and/or insights received from the insight engine.Various implementations include the answer to the query, as well as theidentified insights associated with the query, in a same script suchthat the narrated analytics playlist includes narrated videos thatdescribe the answer, as well as the insight(s). Scripts 1922 can beformed using any suitable type of data structure that can be utilized tostore information, examples of which are provided herein.

Scripts 1922 are provided to animator 1924, which uses the scriptsand/or corresponding metadata to identify what images and audio toinclude in the narrated analytics playlist. For example, animator 1924can generate synthetic speech to include in the playlist based upon thetext included in the scripts, can pull branding information, chartimages, etc. Thus, animator 1924 generates narrated analytics playlist1926, which is consumable by player 1928 to render images and/or outputsynchronized audio. In various scenarios, player 1928 corresponds toplayback module 132 of FIG. 1, playback module 1120 of FIG. 11, and/orplayback module 1800 of FIG. 18. Various implementations of player 1928capture playback analytics and learnings, which are then stored infeedback loop and system analytics 1930 and/or uploaded into proximityplatform 1932. In various implementations, feedback loop and systemanalytics 1930 is representative of databases 124 of FIG. 1. Alternatelyor additionally, player 1928 represents a third-party playback enginethat is external to the personalized analytics system. Accordingly,various implementations generate narrated analytics playlist 1926 informats that are compatible with multiple different types of playbackengines. Playlist 1926 can be formed using any suitable type of datastructure that can be utilized to store information, examples of whichare provided herein.

While player 1928 is described here as generating playback analytics andlearning that is stored in feedback loop and system analytics 1930,alternate or additional modules within the personalized analytics systemgenerate and/or upload various types of analytics and learnings to thefeedback loop and system analytics 1930 and/or proximity platform 1932.Thus, feedback loop and system analytics 1930 corresponds to data,algorithms, and/or information learned by the personalized analyticssystem that is subsequently utilized in future data curation and/orfuture insight generation. The playback analytics and learning caninclude various hyper-parameters used by machine-learning algorithms invarious modules of the personalized analytics system that are sharedwith other shared systems by way of proximity platform 1932.

To further demonstrate, consider now FIGS. 20A and 20B that illustratean example of utilizing a proximity platform to share learnedinformation in accordance with one or more implementations. In variousscenarios, the example described with respect to FIGS. 20A and 20B canbe considered a continuation of one or more examples described withrespect to FIGS. 1-19.

FIGS. 20A and 20B collectively illustrate an example progression ofevents over an arbitrary time period. Here, the progression begins inFIG. 20A and then moves to FIG. 20B. It is to be appreciated that theprogression of events described with respect to FIGS. 20A and 20B is fordiscussion purposes, and that any other ordering, omission, and/oraddition to the events can occur without departing from the scope of theclaimed subject matter.

FIG. 20A illustrates an example environment 2000 that includes servers102 of FIG. 1 that provide cloud-based services 2002 associated with apersonalized analytics system to various devices and/or organizations.Here, the personalized analytics system includes proximity platform2004. While illustrated separately from cloud-based services 2002 andservers 102, this is merely for discussion purposes and it is to beappreciated that alternate or additional implementations integrateportions or all of the proximity platform functionality into thecloud-based services and/or servers 102 without departing from the scopeof the claimed subject matter.

In this example, the personalized analytics system provides services totwo separate and disparate organizations: organization 2006-1 andorganization 2006-2 respectively. Accordingly, each organization has arespective server to access the cloud-based services, identified here asprivate server 2008-1 and private server 2008-2. Similarly, eachorganization also has respective private data, labeled here as privatedata 2010-1 and private data 2010-2. Thus, private data 2010-1corresponds to data accessible to devices associated with organization2006-1, such as client device 2012-1 and the client device 2012-2 butinaccessible to devices associated with other organizations, such asclient device 2012-3 and client device 2012-4 of organization 2006-2.Similarly, private data 2010-2 corresponds to data accessible to clientdevice 2012-3 and client device 2012-4, but inaccessible to clientdevice 2012-1 and client device 2012-2. Thus, the various computingdevices included in organization 2006-1 are disparate and unrelated tothe various computing devices of organization 2006-2.

As each client device accesses the personalized analytics system,various implementations collect anecdotal data and/or evolvemachine-learning algorithms as further described herein. Since thepersonalized analytics system as illustrated in FIG. 17a supportsmultiple organizations, it is desirable to apply the anecdotal and/orevolved machine-learning algorithms at a system level (e.g., at servers102). For example, applying the machine-learning algorithms evolved atorganization 2006-1 at organization 2006-2 (and vice versa) allows thepersonalized analytics system return information more relevant to eachorganization. However, it is undesirable to share the private data usedto evolve the machine-learning algorithms. In other words, to protectthe privacy of each organization, it is desirable to share learnedinformation across organization, but keep private data 2010-1inaccessible to devices external to organization 2006-1, and privatedata 2010-2 inaccessible to devices external to organization 2006-2.

Various implementations forward learned information to the personalizedanalytics system without exposing private data. To illustrate, considerlearnings 2014-1 that generally corresponds to various types ofanecdotal data, machine-learning algorithm observations, reinforcementlearning information, hyper-parameters, etc., generated by client device2012-1 and/or client device 2012-2. These learnings are forwarded by therespective client devices to private server 2008-1, as further indicatedhere by the directional arrows. Private server 2008-1 then forwardslearnings 2014-1 to proximity platform 2004, indicated here bydirectional arrow 2016-1, such as through the use of cloud-basedservices 2002. Similarly, client device 2012-3 and client device 2012-4forward respective learnings 2014-2 to private server 2008-2 which, inturn, forwards the learnings to the proximity platform 2004, indicatedhere by directional arrow 2016-2. The proximity platform 2004 thenintegrates the learning information into the personalized analyticssystem, generally indicated here with arrow 2018. In someimplementations, the proximity platform 2004 executes operationsrepresented by a logical format language that is separate fromunderlying languages of systems utilized by each client device and/ororganization. Using the logical format language allows the proximityplatform to communicate with several varied underlying technologies andlanguage formats (e.g., disparate technologies) used by eachorganization. To illustrate, with respect to FIG. 20A, organization2006-1 can employ a first technology to support various devices (e.g.,private server 2008-1, client device 2012-1, and/or client device2012-2) and organization 2006-2 can employ a second, differenttechnology to support various devices (e.g., private server 2008-2,client device 2012-3, and/or client device 2012-4). Even though theseorganizations utilize different technologies, the organizations can bothinteract with a same proximity platform 2004 via the logical formatlanguage, which allows the proximity platform to abstract and/or protecteach organization's private data from the other.

Moving to FIG. 20B, and in response to integrating the learninginformation into the personalized analytics system, variousimplementations generate updates to one or more machine-learningalgorithms, such as by forwarding hyper-parameters to each server of thesystem (e.g., private server 2008-1, private server 2008-2, etc.).Alternately or additionally, proximity platform 2004 integrates theinformation into cloud-based services 2002. In FIG. 20B, proximityplatform 2004 forwards algorithm updates 2020 to both private server2008-1 and private server 2008-2, as generally indicted by thedirectional arrow 2022-1 and arrow 2022-2. Thus, the personalizedanalytics system is able to extract learned information about varioususer profiles and/or workspaces of the system and forward the learnedinformation without exposing private data. In other words, by extractingand sharing learned information, such as the non-limiting example ofsharing machine-learning algorithm hyper-parameters from a first systemto a second system, the proximity-platform provides the personalizedanalytics system with the ability to change the second system's behavior(e.g., impact a prediction outcome, adjust parameters of a model appliedto similar data of a different client device, etc.) without compromisingthe security of the first system. The changed system behavior caninclude efficiency improvements (e.g., faster insight determinationtimes, faster data extraction, faster data curation, etc.). As onenon-limiting example, a set of hyper-parameters can be adjusted or tunedto generate optimal hyper-parameter values to improve efficiency, suchas by using grid search techniques, random search technique, Bayesianoptimization technique, as part of the tuning algorithms. In variousimplementations, the personalized analytics system determines which ofthe hyper-parameters are relevant for tuning based on a predictivelearning model or target outcome. In turn, the optimal hyper-parametervalues can be distributed to different systems. Accordingly, thepersonalized analytics system can leverage the learned efficienciesacross disparate computing devices without exposing the data used togenerate the efficiencies.

FIG. 21 illustrates an example method 2100 that can be utilized togenerate narrated analytics playlists in accordance with one or moreimplementations. The method can be performed by any suitable combinationof hardware, software, and/or firmware. In at least some embodiments,aspects of the method can be implemented by one or more suitablyconfigured hardware components and/or software modules, such as varioushardware and/or software modules associated with servers 102 and/orcomputing device 104 of FIG. 1. While the method described in FIG. 21illustrates these steps in a particular order, it is to be appreciatedthat any specific order or hierarchy of the steps described here is usedto illustrate an example of a sample approach. Other approaches may beused that rearrange the ordering of these steps. Thus, the order stepsdescribed here may be rearranged, and the illustrated ordering of thesesteps is not intended to be limiting.

At 2102, various implementations curate data from one or more datasources, such as through the use of curation engine module 110. In someimplementations, the personalized analytics system identifies datasources to scan based on user-defined data sources, such as databaseaddresses assigned to a particular workspace via explicit input to thepersonalized analytics system. Alternately or additionally, variousimplementations scan applications for data to curate, such as SaaSapplications. The curation of data can be in response to inputcorresponding to a manual trigger request and/or occur automatically,such as at scheduled intervals, during idle periods of system inactivity(e.g., no active input), and so forth. To curate the data, one or moreimplementations identify attributes and/or relational informationbetween the data that is then stored in metadata. The personalizedanalytics system oftentimes generates relational data models during thecuration process, and applies the relational data models when storingthe curated data in a database. In some implementations, the curation ofdata includes identifying drill-path information, and storing thedrill-path information as part of the curated data. Alternately oradditionally, one or more implementations utilize anecdotal data toinfluence the curation process.

At 2104, the personalized analytics system receives a trigger event toperform a query analysis (e.g., personalized analytics module 106). Thetrigger event can be received in any suitable manner, such as via anexplicit input and/or interaction to perform the query analysis and/oran implicit input and/or interaction that is used to trigger the queryanalysis. Alternately or additionally, the trigger event can originatefrom a scheduler and/or from calendar scans as further described herein.

In response to receiving the trigger event, various implementationsidentify one or keywords to use in the query analysis at 2106, such asby using parser module 112 and/or query magnifier module 114. This caninclude utilizing keywords included in an input query string and/orderiving keywords from anecdotal data associated with a user profileand/or workspace, accessing metadata, using word ranking information,etc. For instance, various implementations identify contextual wordsincluded in the input query string, such as by using a tagger andtokenizer module, and then find similar words to the contextual wordsthat have a higher success rate of returning results.

One or more implementations extract information from the curated databased upon the one or more keywords at 2108, such as by using insightengine module 116, parser module 112 and/or query magnifier module 114.In some implementations, the exact words included in the input stringare utilized to extract information, while in alternate or additionalimplementations, the personalized analytics system augments the keywordswith contextual parameters. Sometimes the augmentation is based uponanecdotal data. The personalized analytics system can also identify anduse alternate words to extract additional information, and thencollectively analyze the different variations of extracted informationto identify insights. This can include generating multiple queries withalternate wording, using primary and secondary attributes, and so forth.Accordingly, at 2110, one or more implementations analyze the extractedinformation and/or the additional information to identify one or moreinsights (e.g., insight engine module 116). Any suitable type of insightcan be identified, examples of which are provided herein. In turn, thepersonalized analytics system generates a script based upon the one ormore insights at 2112.

At 2114, and in response to receiving the script, one or moreimplementations augment the script to generate narrated analyticsplaylists. In various implementations, the personalized analytics systemapplies a computational algorithm to the script to identify whatcomponents and/or visualizations to include in a playlist that helpexplain the various insights. One or more implementations augment thescript with narrative description(s) using various types ofmachine-learning algorithms, such as grammar-based algorithms, languagepattern algorithms, syntactic algorithms, etc. In turn, the textualdescription generated by these machine-learning algorithms can beconverted into an audible output, such as through the use of varioustext-to-speech algorithms. The visualizations and audible output arethen statically bundled to form a narrated analytics playlist. In one ormore implementations, metadata is combined and/or statically bundled thenarrated analytics playlist as well.

Having described an example of generating narrated analytics playlists,consider now a discussion consider now a discussion of using voicecontrol in a personalized analytics system that is in accordance withone or more implementations.

Voice Control

FIG. 22 illustrates an example environment 2200 in which a progressionof events implements aspects of voice control of a personalizedanalytics system, such as voice control of narrated analytics playlistplayback and/or voice control for query input that is in accordance withone or more implementations. These events occur in an exampleenvironment 2200 that includes a computing device 2202 that is in theform of a tablet. The example environment 2200 is represented at twoarbitrary points in time that are labeled as example environment 2200-1and example environment 2200-2. Collectively, example environment 2200-1and example environment 2200-2 embody example environment 2200. Invarious scenarios, the example described with respect to FIG. 22 can beconsidered a continuation of one or more examples described with respectto FIGS. 1-21.

In environment 2200-1, computing device 2202 is in progress of playingback a narrated analytics playlist 2204, such as via playback module1120 of FIG. 11. In implementations, the narrated analytics playlist hasbeen customized for a particular user by including content and/orinsights that have been identified as being relevant to the user basedon anecdotal information. Accordingly, narrated analytics playlist 2204renders insights, such as a sales chart, and outputs an audibledescription 2206 that describes the rendered insight. Inimplementations, the playback module 1120 includes voice controlfeatures that influence playback of a narrated analytics playlist.Alternately or additionally, the voice control features can be used toinitiate an input query and/or a trigger event.

In response to viewing narrated analytics playlist 2204, and/or hearingthe audible description 2206, a user verbalizes an audible input 2208.In turn, the playback module 1120 identifies that audible input has beenreceived, and pauses the playback of narrated analytic playlist 2204.The playback module 1120 can alternately or additionally includespeech-to-text algorithms that convert audible input 2208 into a textstring. The playback module 1120 can analyze the text string to searchfor control keywords associated with modifying the playback of narratedanalytic playlist 2204, such as “stop”, “pause”, “skip”, “go back”,“rewind”, “replay”, “forward”, “wait”, etc. In response to identifyingcontrol keywords, the playback module 1120 modifies the playbackaccordingly. In some implementations, such as for controls that pauseand/or stop the playback, the playback can be resumed after expirationof a timer that monitors user input.

In some implementations, the playback module 1120 identifies audibleinput 2208 as an input query for additional information related to thecurrently output content. In turn, the playback module 1120 can generatea result for the requested information based upon metadata as furtherdescribed herein. Alternately or additionally, the playback module 1120can forward the audible input query to other modules in the personalizedanalytics system for further analysis, such as parser module 1110 ofFIG. 11. Here, the audible input corresponds to an input query for salesinformation, where the input query specifies a particular time scope.

In example environment 2200-2, the narrated analytics playlist has beenmodified to include new content 2210 that represents a reply and/orinsight corresponding to audible input to 2208. The new content canalternately or additionally include descriptive content 2212 that isillustrated here as being output inaudible form. Thus, variousimplementations allow for voice control of a narrated analyticsplaylist. Alternately or additionally, the playback module can initiateinput queries via audible input.

In the example environment 2200, computing device 2202 outputs contentthat has been customized for a particular user in both visual andaudible form. In various implementations, input can be analyzed based onthe particular user as well. Consider a scenario in which audible input2208 includes an ambiguous word, such as “August” which can beinterpreted as a name of a person or as a name of a calendar month.Various implementations attempt to interpret ambiguous words based uponanecdotal information about the user. For example, an analysis of theanecdotal information can identify that the user has an account manager,customer, and/or coworker with the name “August”. In turn, playbackmodule 1120 and/or other modules of the personalized analytics systemcan interpret the ambiguous word as a user name, rather than a calendarmonth. This helps improve a contextual interpretation of the audibleinput, thus improving the accuracy of the generated insight and/orresponse to the audible input. In other words, the personalizedanalytics system can allow for vocabulary customizations and/or wordinterpretations based on anecdotal information and/or learnedinformation from a proximity platform. Various implementationsprioritize the anecdotal information and/or learned information suchthat input queries are interpreted based on the anecdotal informationand/or learned information. Thus, the term “August” can be interpretedas a month for a first user, as a street name for a second user, as aperson for a third user, and so forth, based upon the customizedinterpretations.

Now consider FIG. 23 that illustrates an example method 2300 that can beutilized to control playback of a narrated analytics playlist usingaudible input that is in accordance with one or more implementations.The method can be performed by any suitable combination of hardware,software, and/or firmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of themethod can be implemented by one or more suitably configured hardwarecomponents and/or software modules, such as various hardware and/orsoftware modules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104of FIG. 1, such as various modules included in personalized analyticsmodule 106 and/or client analytics module 108. While the methoddescribed in FIG. 23 illustrates these steps in a particular order, itis to be appreciated that any specific order or hierarchy of the stepsdescribed here is used to illustrate an example of a sample approach.Other approaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps.Thus, the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

At 2302, a narrated analytics playlist is output via a playback moduleof a personalized analytics system. For example, playback module 1120plays out narrated analytics playlist 2204 by rendering content andoutputting audible descriptions as further described herein.

At 2304, an audible input is received via the playback module. Playbackmodule 1120, for example, receives audible input 2208 via a microphoneof computing device 2202. Accordingly, the received audible input isdifferent from audible content associated with narrated analyticsplaylist 2204. In some implementations, playback module 1120 identifiesan ambiguous word in the audible input based, at least in part, on usingspeech-to-text algorithms that convert the audible input to text.Alternately or additionally, playback module 1120 resolves the ambiguousword using anecdotal information associated with the user.

In response to receiving the audible input, the playing out of thenarrated analytics playlist is modified based, at least in part, on theaudible input. For example, playback module 1120 pauses playback ofnarrated analytics playlist 2304. This can include playback module 1120analyzing audible input 2208 to identify a playback control keyword inthe audible input, and modifying the playing out of the narratedanalytics playlist based on the playback control keyword. As anotherexample, playback module 1120 analyzes audible input 2208 to identifythat the audible input includes an input query to the personalizedanalytics system. In response to identifying the audible input includesan input query, the playback module 1120 modifies the playing out of thenarrated analytics playlist to include new content that addresses theinput query, such as by generating the new content using metadataassociated with the narrated analytics playlist and/or querying thepersonalized analytics system for the new content. In implementations,the playback module resumes the playing out of the narrated analyticsplaylist after expiration of a timer.

Having described using voice control in a personalized analytics system,consider now a discussion of auto-point features in a personalizedanalytics system that is in accordance with one or more implementations.

Auto-Point Features During Playback

A playback module, such as via playback module 1120 of FIG. 11, canreceive a narrated analytics playlist, and output the content of theplaylist by rendering images and/or outputting audio. As furtherdescribed herein, the playback module 1120 oftentimes receives metadatawith the narrated analytics playlist that allows the playback module1120 to modify content dynamically based upon user input. For instance,with reference to FIG. 6, a playback module 1120 dynamically generates acomparison chart in response to receiving user input. The comparisonchart can be generated by the playback module 1120 using the metadatareceived with the narrated analytics playlist and/or by the playbackmodule 1120 submitting an input query to the personalized analyticssystem. Various implementations can alternately or additionally generateaudible content for the newly generated images and/or scenes (e.g.,images and/or scenes not inherently included in the narrated analyticsplaylist) to provide lip synching with the new content. Here, the phrase“lip synching” is used to denote audible output whose content iscoordinated with a corresponding image. In other words, lip synchingcorresponds to outputting a synchronized audible output in which theaudible description in the audible output corresponds to a currentlyrendered image and/or scene. Thus, if a user interacts with a narratedanalytics playlist in such a way that new content is generated and/orrendered by a playback module, coordinated audio that describes the newcontent is output as well. In implementations, the narrated analyticsplaylist has been customized for a particular user by including contentand/or insights that have been identified as being relevant to the user

To further illustrate, consider now FIG. 24 that illustrates an exampleenvironment in which a progression of events implements aspects of lipsynching in a personalized analytics system that is in accordance withone or more implementations. These events occur in an exampleenvironment at two arbitrary points in time that are labeled as exampleenvironment 2400-1 and example environment 2400-2. Example environments2400-1 and 2400-2 include a computing device 2402 that is in the form ofa tablet. In various scenarios, the example described with respect toFIG. 24 can be considered a continuation of one or more examplesdescribed with respect to FIGS. 1-23.

In environment 2400-1, computing device 2402 is in progress of playingback a narrated analytics playlist 2404, such as via playback module1120 of FIG. 11. In implementations, the narrated analytics playlist hasbeen customized for a particular user by including content and/orinsights that have been identified as being relevant to the user basedon anecdotal information. Accordingly, narrated analytics playlist 2404renders insights, such as a bar chart that illustrates sales growth overfour quarters, and outputs an audible description 2406 that describesthe rendered insight.

In response to viewing narrated analytics playlist 2404, and/or hearingthe audible description 2406, a user 2408 enters touch input tocomputing device 2402 that selects a portion of an original sceneincluded in the narrated analytics playlist that is currently beingrendered (e.g., user input that selects a particular bar chart). Whileillustrated here as touch input, it is to be appreciated that othertypes of input can be utilized as well, such as audible input, keyboardinput, etc. In response to receiving the user input, playback module1120 determines to generate new content. For example, playback module1120 can interpret the user input as a zoom command to zoom in on theselected bar, and determine to visually zoom in on the selected bar.While described in the context of a zoom command, it is to beappreciated that playback module 1120 can interpret the user input asother commands that modify what is being visually displayed, such as ahighlight command that creates a spotlight effect on a selected portionof the displayed content, a pan command (e.g., left, right, up, down)that moves and/or centers a selected portion of the displayed content ona display device, a focus command that makes a selected portion of thedisplayed content in focus while visually blurring other portions of thedisplayed content, a magnify command that focuses on, and displaysadditional details corresponding to, a selected portion of the displayedcontent, and so forth. In turn, playback module 1120 can perform thecorresponding command, and generate new audible content synchronized tothe modified visual display.

Moving to example environment 2400-2, the narrated analytics playlistcorresponds to a modified version of narrated analytics playlist 2404that includes new visual content 2410. More particularly, visual content2410 corresponds to a zoomed in view of the content selected by user2408, where the zoomed in view includes additional information notrendered in environment 2400-1. In implementations, the additionalinformation and/or the scene corresponding to visual content 2410 isautomatically generated by playback module 1120 without userinvolvement. This can be achieved in any suitable manner, such as byprocessing metadata received and/or bundled with the original narratedanalytics playlist (e.g., narrated analytics playlist 2404) as describedin the example with reference to FIG. 6. For instance, playback module1120 can generate visual content 2410 only from the metadata and withoutfurther communications and/or queries to the personalized analyticssystem. Alternately or additionally, the playback module 1120 can querythe personalized analytics system for the new content and/or additionaldetails related to content selected via the user input.

Various implementations generate new audible descriptions thatcorrespond to the new content. In the example environment 2400-2,playback module 1120 outputs audible content 2412 that corresponds to anewly generated description based on visual content 2410. In otherwords, playback module 1120 can generate and/or output audible contentthat describes the portion in more detail relative to a description ofthe original scene. Thus, in response to receiving user input thatmodifies the content and/or scenes output in the narrated analyticsplaylist, various implementations generate new audible content thatdescribes the modified content and/or scenes such that the playbackmodule 1120 outputs lip synched audible content that describes themodified content and/or scenes.

Various implementations can automatically apply visual enhancements tothe narrated analytic playlists, where the visual enhancements canalternately be referred to as auto-pointing. To demonstrate, considernow FIG. 25 that illustrates an example environment in which aprogression of events implements aspects of auto-pointers in apersonalized analytics system that is in accordance with one or moreimplementations. These events occur at two arbitrary points in time thatare labeled as example environment 2500-1 and example environment2500-2, respectively. Example environments 2500-1 and 2500-2 include acomputing device 2502 that is in the form of a tablet, but it is to beappreciated that any other suitable computing device can be utilized,examples of which are provided herein. In various scenarios, the exampledescribed with respect to FIG. 25 can be considered a continuation ofone or more examples described with respect to FIGS. 1-24.

In environment 2500-1, computing device 2502 is in progress of playingback a narrated analytics playlist 2504, such as via playback module1120 of FIG. 11. In implementations, the narrated analytics playlist hasbeen customized for a particular user by including content and/orinsights that have been identified as being relevant to the user basedon anecdotal information. The narrated analytics playlist includesmetadata 2506 that generally represents any combination of informationassociated with narrated analytics playlist 2504. Metadata 2506, forinstance, can include tags that correspond to content being rendered,text description of content being rendered, descriptions of charts, etc.In this example, narrated analytics playlist 2504 renders a map of theUnited States that includes sales information across various regions.Various implementations can analyze metadata 2506 and determine torender an auto-pointer based upon the content being rendered, the audiobeing output, user anecdotal information, and/or an analysis of themetadata.

To illustrate, consider environment 2500-1 in which playback module 1120renders visible content of narrated analytics playlist 2504 and outputsaudible content 2508 that describes a portion of the visible content.Playback module 1120 can analyze audible content 2508, either inreal-time while being output or some arbitrary point in time prior tobeing output, to identify keywords and/or items of interest to a user,such as through the use of natural language processing algorithms,machine learning algorithms, indexing algorithms, user anecdotalinformation, and so forth, as further described herein. This can includeplayback module 1120 applying speech-to-text algorithms to audiblecontent 2508 during playback and/or prior to playback to generate textdata. Playback module 1120 can alternately or additionally analyzemetadata 2506 based upon the identified keywords and/or items ofinterest identified from the audible content, and determine to apply anauto-pointer to the rendered content. For example, the playback modulecan analyze the metadata to identify a location of the visual contentthat will be visually enhanced via an auto-pointer.

Moving to example environment 2500-2, the rendered content of thenarrated analytics playlist includes a visual auto-pointer 2510 thatcorresponds to magnifying a particular portion of the rendered contentto a size that is larger relative to a default visual size of theparticular portion. While illustrated in this example as a magnificationvisual enhancement, it is to be appreciated that the auto-pointer canutilize other types of visual enhancements as well, such as highlights,panning, focusing, and so forth. In implementations, the renderedcontent within auto-pointer 2510 can include additional detail relativeto the visual content rendered without the visual enhancement.Alternately or additionally, playback module 1120 can generateadditional audio content 2512 that provides additional audibledescription of the content being visually enhanced by the auto-pointer.Thus, playback module 1120 can automatically determine to add anauto-pointer to visual content associated with a narrated analyticsplaylist based upon an analysis of the corresponding audio contentand/or metadata.

In automatically determining to apply an auto-pointer to a narratedanalytics playlist, some implementations of playback module 1120 canupdate the metadata with new tags based upon learned information. Forinstance, consider a scenario in which the playback module identifies akeyword in audible content, such as the name of a city (e.g.,“Seattle”). Playback module 1120 can scan the metadata and identifyand/or match the city name to a word included in a chart title. Toillustrate, consider metadata that includes content that describes achart, such as title information:

-   -   title: {text: ‘Monthly Average Sales in Seattle Vs Spokane},        or axis information:    -   xAxis: {categories: [‘Jan’, ‘Feb’, ‘Mar’, ‘Apr’, ‘May’, ‘Jun’,        ‘Jul’, ‘Aug’, ‘Sep’, ‘Oct’, ‘Nov’, ‘Dec’]},        Playback module 1120 can scan this metadata information to        identify content that matches to keywords extracted from the        audio. In turn, playback module 1120 can generate tag        information that includes the city name, and update the metadata        with the newly generated tag information. While described in the        context of matching one keyword to one chart title, alternate or        additional implementations can determine what tag information to        generate based upon matching a keyword to multiple instances of        information in the metadata. Various implementations can        alternately or additionally apply ranking algorithms to newly        generated tag information, and selectively update the metadata        with a portion of the newly generated tag information, such as        by adding a threshold number of the newly generated tag        information based on rank. As machine learning algorithms        perform the processes of identifying keywords in audio, matching        the keywords to content included in the metadata, and        determining when to generate tag information, the processes        improve over time from the learned information, thus improving        the overall computing performance as further described herein.

Similar to that described with respect to auto-pointers, the taggeneration process can be performed in real-time as a narrated analyticsplaylist is being played out and/or prior to the output. For example,the playback module 1120 can perform the tag generation process (and/orthe auto-pointer determination process) before any consumption of thenarrated analytics playlist. As another example, the tag generationprocess (and/or the auto-pointer determination process) can be performedin an iterative fashion where X seconds of playlist data is analyzedprior to output by the playback module 1120, where X is an arbitraryvalue. In other words, during playback of a narrated analytics playlist,the playback module 1120 can “look ahead” at X seconds worth of contentto perform the tag generation process (and/or the auto-pointerdetermination process).

Now consider FIG. 26 that illustrates an example method 2600 that can beutilized to dynamically generate lip synched content in a personalizedanalytics system that is in accordance with one or more implementations.The method can be performed by any suitable combination of hardware,software, and/or firmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of themethod can be implemented by one or more suitably configured hardwarecomponents and/or software modules, such as various hardware and/orsoftware modules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104of FIG. 1, such as various modules included in personalized analyticsmodule 106 and/or client analytics module 108. While the methoddescribed in FIG. 26 illustrates these steps in a particular order, itis to be appreciated that any specific order or hierarchy of the stepsdescribed here is used to illustrate an example of a sample approach.Other approaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps.Thus, the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

At 2602, a narrated analytics playlist configured for a user is playedout via a playback module of a personalized analytics system. Forexample, playback module 1120 plays out narrated analytics playlist 2404by rendering content and outputting audible descriptions as furtherdescribed herein.

At 2604, user input that corresponds to modifying an original sceneincluded in the narrated analytics playlist is received. Playback module1120, for example, receives touch input via a display device ofcomputing device 2402. However, other types of user input can bereceived, such as audible input, keyboard input, etc. In variousimplementations, the user input corresponds to an input command, such asa zoom in command, a zoom out command, an object selection command, andso forth. Some implementations receive user input that corresponds toselecting a portion of the original scene.

In response to receiving the user input, a new scene to output as partof the narrated analytics playlist is generated at 2606, wheregenerating the new scene is based on the user input. To illustrate,playback module 1120 generates new content using metadata received withthe narrated analytics playlist, where the new scene corresponds to aselected portion of the original scene. Alternately or additionally, theplayback module queries the personalized analytics system for additionalcontent. Thus, in some implementations, playback module 1120 generatesthe new content using data local to the playback module (e.g., themetadata), while in alternate or additional implementations, theplayback module requests the new content from an entity remote from,and/or communicatively coupled to, the playback module (e.g., thepersonalized analytics system).

In response to generating the new scene, an audible output thatdescribes the new scene is generated at 2608. This can include playbackmodule 1120 generating the audible input from metadata and/or byquerying the personalized analytics system. Generating the audibleoutput includes generating audible content that describes a selectedportion of the original scene in more detail relative to a descriptionof the original scene that is included in the original narratedanalytics playlist.

FIG. 27 illustrates an example method 2700 that can be utilized todynamically apply auto-pointers to content included in a narratedanalytics playlist that is in accordance with one or moreimplementations. The method can be performed by any suitable combinationof hardware, software, and/or firmware. In at least some embodiments,aspects of the method can be implemented by one or more suitablyconfigured hardware components and/or software modules, such as varioushardware and/or software modules associated with servers 102 and/orcomputing device 104 of FIG. 1, such as playback module 132. While themethod described in FIG. 27 illustrates these steps in a particularorder, it is to be appreciated that any specific order or hierarchy ofthe steps described here is used to illustrate an example of a sampleapproach. Other approaches may be used that rearrange the ordering ofthese steps. Thus, the order of the steps described here may berearranged, and the illustrated ordering of these steps is not intendedto be limiting.

At 2702, a first portion of a narrated analytics playlist configured fora user, is played out via a playback module of a personalized analyticssystem. For example, playback module 1120 of FIG. 11 plays out narratedanalytics playlist 2504 of FIG. 25. This includes visually renderingcontent and/or audibly outputting descriptions associated with thevisually rendered content as further described herein.

During the playing out of the first portion of the narrated analyticsplaylist, one or more implementations scan audible content associatedwith a second portion of the narrated analytics playlist to identify oneor more keywords at 2704. Playback module 1120, for instance, scansahead in narrated analytics playlist 2504 (e.g., future content to berendered visually and/or audibly output), such as by scanning apredetermined amount of content that is sequential and/or adjacent tothe first portion of content currently being played out. Someimplementations scan audible content associated with the second portionof the narrated analytics playlist using natural language processingalgorithms, machine learning algorithms, and so forth. This can includescanning the audible content based on user anecdotal information toidentify keywords relevant to a particular user. Alternately oradditionally, the playback module scans metadata associated with thesecond portion of the narrated analytics playlist to match the one ormore keywords to information included in the metadata. For instance, themetadata can include information that identifies a location of visualcontent associated with the one or more keywords.

At 2706, one or more implementations determine to visually render anauto-pointer over a section of content associated with the secondportion of the narrated analytics playlist based, at least in part, onthe one or more keywords. Playback module 1120, for example, determinesto visually render auto pointer 2510 over visual content associated withnarrated analytics playlist based upon said scanning. For instance, theplayback module 1120 identifies visual content that corresponds to,and/or is synchronized with, audible output, and determines to visuallyenhance the visual content with an auto-pointer. Some implementationsbase the determination to render the auto-pointer on a relevancy metric,such as by identifying content that has a correlation to user anecdotalinformation within or above a threshold value. The determination tovisually render an auto-pointer can occur automatically and without userinteraction to initiate the rendering of the auto-pointer (e.g., thedetermination is based on analyses of content, audio, etc.).

Accordingly, and in response to determining to visually render theauto-pointer, one or more implementations render the auto-pointer overthe section of content during playback of the second portion of thenarrated analytics playlist at 2708. This can include visuallymagnifying, panning, centering, highlighting, and/or focusing in oncontent as further described herein.

Having described auto-pointer features in a personalized analyticssystem, consider now a discussion of image inputs to a personalizedanalytics system that is in accordance with one or more implementations.

Image Inputs to a Personalized Analytics System

Various implementations receive and/or scan images as input to thepersonalized analytic system. To illustrate, consider now FIG. 28 thatillustrates example environment 2800 and example environment 2802 that,collectively, demonstrate features of the personalized analytics systemin which images are scanned from social media. In various scenarios, thefeatures described with respect to FIG. 28 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-27.

In example environment 2800, user 2804 interacts with computing device2806. More particularly, user 2804 has navigated to a social mediawebsite 2808 that is associated with the user. Accordingly, theinteractions can include logging on to the social media web site and/orinteracting with content managed by the social media web site. In thisexample, a user 2804 has uploaded image 2810 as part of their userprofile content. In implementations, the personalized analytics systemscans a user's social media for images and/or videos. For example,curation engine module 1102 of FIG. 11 can scan the social media website2808 in response to the personalized analytics system identifying theuser interactions. Alternately or additionally, the curation enginemodule 1102 scans the social media during idle periods when the user isnot interacting with computing device 2806. Thus, the scanning of socialmedia for images and/or video can be triggered in response toidentifying user interaction with the social media, and/or in responseto identifying that a computing device is idle. In some implementations,the user directs the personalized analytics system to the social mediacontent by registering the social media addresses with the personalizedanalytics system. Alternately or additionally, the user inputsauthentication information that authorizes the personalized analyticssystem to scan the social media content.

Implementations of the personalized analytics system acquire imagesand/or videos from the user's social media, and incorporate the imagesinto a narrated analytic playlist. In example environment 2802, narratedanalytics playlist 2812 represents a narrated analytics playlistgenerated for user 2804. Based upon the acquisition of image 2810 fromthe user's social media website, the personalized analytics systemincorporates the image into the narrated analytics playlist, thus makingthe presentation more personalized and directed to user 2804. Inenvironment 2800, the curation engine module 1102 selects image 2810based on the user uploading the image and/or the image being part of theuser's profile content, but images can be selected based on other typesfactors as well, such as public social media images tagged withattributes associated with user 2804 (e.g., a same city, a same company,a same industry, etc.). For example, the curation engine module cancorrelate public social media content to anecdotal informationassociated with the user, and select an image that has a highcorrelation to the user.

Consider now FIG. 29 that illustrates example environment 2900 andexample environment 2902 that, collectively, describe features of thepersonalized analytics system in which input images can trigger thegeneration of a narrated analytics playlist. In various scenarios, theexample described with respect to FIG. 29 can be considered acontinuation of one or more examples described with respect to FIGS.1-28.

Environment 2900 includes a mobile device 2904 that is communicativelycoupled to a personalized analytics system. For example, mobile device2904 can include a client device application that accesses thepersonalized analytics system via cloud-based services provided by aserver. Alternately or additionally, mobile device 2904 can include astandalone application that implements features of the personalizedanalytics system. In this example, mobile device 2904 has captured animage 2906 that includes a company logo. For example, mobile device 2904can capture image 2906 off of document 2908 using a camera of the mobiledevice. In various implementations, the camera is accessed via theclient device application and/or the standalone application such thatthe personalized analytics system receives image 2906 as an input.Alternately or additionally, a user manually submits image 2906 to thepersonalized analytics system. In turn, image 2906 can be submitted toquery handler 1902 of FIG. 19 and/or curation engine module 1102 of FIG.11 (not illustrated here).

In implementations, receiving an image input can trigger the generationof a narrated analytics playlist. For instance, the query handler 1902and/or the curation engine module 1102 can include image processingalgorithms that analyze image 2906 to extract text from the image (e.g.,“Honey Bee Farms”). Alternately or additionally, the query handler 1902and/or the curation engine module 1102 correlate the extracted text toidentify a company logo that matches the extracted text. As yet anotherexample, the query handler 1902 and/or the curation engine module 1102can include image matching algorithms that attempt to match the image toa company logo, identify similar images, extract tags from the similarimages, etc. In response to identifying information about the image,such as a company name, a company logo, company location, etc., thepersonalized analytics system can trigger the generation of a narratedanalytics playlist based on the input image. Accordingly, environment2902 includes a narrated analytics playlist 2910 that includes insightsbased on the identified company (e.g., Honey Bee Farms).

Now consider FIG. 30 that illustrates an example method 3000 that can beutilized to incorporate social media content into a narrated analyticsplaylist in accordance with one or more implementations. The method canbe performed by any suitable combination of hardware, software, and/orfirmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of the method can beimplemented by one or more suitably configured hardware componentsand/or software modules, such as various hardware and/or softwaremodules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104 of FIG.1, such as various modules included in personalized analytics module 106and/or client analytics module 108. While the method described in FIG.30 illustrates these steps in a particular order, it is to beappreciated that any specific order or hierarchy of the steps describedhere is used to illustrate an example of a sample approach. Otherapproaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps. Thus,the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

At 3002, an input image from social media associated with a user isreceived via a personalized analytics system. For example, curationengine module 1102 can scan social media website 2808 to extract image2810 as the input image. The social media can correspond to any type ofsocial media, such as a social media networking application or website,a social media feed, a social media photo sharing application orwebsite, a social media video sharing application or website, etc. Insome implementations, video inputs are received as the input image. Inat least one implementation, curation engine module 1102 receives anaddress to the social media as user input, and registers the address asa source of data. In turn, the curation engine module 1102 accesses theaddress during a data curation process. This can include the curationengine module 1102 receiving authentication information associated withthe social media, and using the authentication information to access thesocial media. Sometimes curation engine module 1102 accesses andanalyzes public social media content to identify at least one image thatcorrelates to anecdotal information associated with the user. In turn,the curation engine module 1102 select the public content as the inputimage.

In response to the receiving, one or more implementations store theimage at the personalized analytics system at 3004. For instance,curation engine modules 1102 stores the input image as curated dataand/or anecdotal information associated with the user.

At 3006, a narrated analytics playlist that is configured for the useris generated. For instance, the personalized analytic system 500 of FIG.5 can generate narrated analytics playlist using various techniques asfurther described herein.

One or more implementations modify the narrated analytics playlist toinclude the input image from social media at 3008. For example, storynarrator module 1116 of FIG. 11 modifies narrated analytics playlist2812 to include the input image 2810 based on the narrated analyticsplaylist being generated for user 2804.

Having described image inputs to a personalized analytics system,consider now a discussion of calculating playback duration for anarrated analytics playlist that is in accordance with one or moreimplementations.

Calculating Playback Duration for a Narrated Analytics Playlist

A narrated analytics playlist can include multiple different scenes,each of which presents information about a particular insight.Accordingly, the duration of time to play out the narrated analyticsplaylist can depend upon how many insights are included in the playlist.The duration of time can alternately or additionally depend upon howmuch information is included in each scene. Various implementationsselect a number of insights to include in a narrated analytics playlistbased upon a desired play out duration for the narrated analyticsplaylist. For example, the personalized analytics system can have anarbitrary playback duration threshold value, such as 3 minutes, that isused to determine what and/or how many insights to include in thenarrated analytics playlist. The playback duration threshold value canbe based upon a predetermined value and/or based on anecdotalinformation (e.g., a first user only watches playlists with a 2-minuteduration, a second user likes playlists with a 5-minute duration, etc.).Thus, the playback duration threshold value can be a fixed value or adynamic value that is based on an associated user. In turn, thepersonalized analytics system can calculate and/or evaluate a playbackduration of a narrated analytics playlist based upon the includedcontent, such as by comparing the calculated playback duration to theplayback duration threshold.

FIG. 31 illustrates example environment 3100 and example environment3102 that, collectively, describe features of the personalized analyticssystem in which playback duration for a narrated analytics playlist iscalculated. In various scenarios, the example described with respect toFIG. 31 can be considered a continuation of one or more examplesdescribed with respect to FIGS. 1-30.

Environment 3100 includes a narrated analytics playlist 3104 that cancorrespond to a generated narrated analytics playlist and/or a potentialnarrated analytics playlist that the personalized analytics system isevaluating. Here, the narrated analytics playlist includes fourdifferent scenes: scene 3106, scene 3108, scene 3110, and scene 3112.Alternately or additionally, the personalized analytics system hasidentified these scenes as potential scenes to include in the narratedanalytics playlist. Various implementations calculate a playbackduration based upon the content of a scene.

Scene 3106, for example, corresponds to a chart representation of aninsight. Various implementations evaluate scene 3106 to identify acorresponding complexity, and determine a playback duration based uponthe corresponding complexity. To illustrate, scene 3106 illustrates asales trend chart that includes actual data points and an average of thedata points. The personalized analytics system determines that thecomplexity of this particular chart corresponds to a default complexity,such as by identifying the chart illustrates two metrics and determiningthat the number of chart metrics (e.g., two) falls below a complexitythreshold value. Accordingly, and based on the complexity of scene 3106,the personalized analytics system assigns scene 3106 a duration of “N”seconds, where N represents an arbitrary default playback durationassigned to scenes, such as 10 seconds, 12 seconds, and so forth. Inother words, the duration calculation and/or duration assignmentconfigures narrated analytics playlist 3104 to playout the scene for “N”seconds before transitioning to scene 3108.

Moving to scene 3108, the personalized analytics system determines thatscene 3108 has more complexity relative to scene 3106. For instance,relative to scene 3106, scene 3108 includes more metrics and/or objectsthat translate into a longer playback duration. In other words, morecomplex scenes are assigned longer playback durations to allow a usertime to comprehend the visual representation and/or to allow for alonger verbal description to play out. Accordingly, if the respectivecomplexity falls above the playback complexity threshold value, thepersonalized analytics system assigns the more complex scenes a playbackduration that adds an additional playback duration to the default thedefault playback duration. Thus, the personalized analytics systemcalculates and/or assigns scene 3108 a playback duration of “N+X”seconds, where X is an arbitrary playback duration. Alternately oradditionally, a scene may have verbose text relative to other scenes,such as scene 3110 relative to scene 3106 and/or scene 3108.

Various implementations determine an amount of textual descriptionassociated with a scene, whether rendered visually or output audibly,and calculate and/or assign the scene additional playback duration timerelative to the default playback time. In environment 3100, thepersonalized analytics system calculates and/or assigns scene 3110 aplayback duration of “N+Y” seconds, where Y is an arbitrary playbackduration, based upon an amount of text description associated with scene3110. As yet another example, the personalized analytics system canidentify scenes that include a combination of visual content objects andtext description, such as scene 3112, and calculate and/or assign andthe scene a playback duration of “N+Z” seconds, where Z is an arbitraryplayback duration. Thus, based upon these various assignments and/orcalculations, the personalized analytics system can calculate the totalplayback duration of narrated analytics playlist 3104 as being:

N+(N+X)+(N+Y)+(N+Z)=4N+X+Y+Z

The calculation of playback duration based on content can adjust a playout duration of a scene to provide users with more time to absorb morecomplex content. Alternately or additionally, the total durationcalculation can also be compared to the playback duration thresholdvalue to determine if the current configuration of narrated analyticsplaylist 3104 meets the playback duration specification, or ifadjustments are needed (e.g., remove insights, simplify text, etc.).

One or more implementations calculate the playback duration for scenesof a narrated analytics playlist based upon user input. To furtherillustrate, consider now environment 3102 that includes examples of userinput that can influence the calculated duration of scenes for anarrated analytics playlist in accordance with one or moreimplementations. Environment 3102 includes computing device 3114 that isillustrated as a tablet with a touchscreen interface. Computing device3114-1 corresponds to the tablet at a first point in time, whilecomputing device 3114-2 corresponds to the tablet at a second point intime.

Computing device 3114-1 is in progress of playing out a scene 3116 of anarrated analytics playlist. During the playback of scene 3116, user3118 interacts with rewind control 3120. Various implementationsidentify this user behavior as input requesting more play out time, anddetermine to dynamically increase the playback duration of scene 3116.The determination to dynamically increase the playback duration can bebased upon a single user interaction with the rewind control and/ormultiple interactions with the rewind control. Thus, the playbackduration of a narrated analytics playlist and/or a particular scenewithin the narrated analytics playlist can be based upon userinteractions. In some implementations, the personalized analyticsplaylist modifies the corresponding narrated analytics playlist suchthat future playbacks will render scene 3116 for the duration calculatedbased on the user interaction with rewind control 3120.

Computing device 3114-2 displays a configuration screen associated withthe personalized analytics system. Here, user 3122 modifies the value ofa default playback duration by interacting with control 3124.Accordingly, various implementations set the playback duration for ascene based on configuration settings and/or user configuration input.

Some implementations determine a number of insights to include in anarrated analytics playlist based upon advertisements. Consider anexample in which a narrated analytics playlist includes an advertisementwith an advertisement duration of 10 seconds. The selection of theadvertisement to include in the narrated analytics playlist can be basedon any suitable type of information, such as a correlation between theadvertisement content and anecdotal information. The inclusion of theadvertisement can affect the total playback duration of the narratedanalytics playlist. Accordingly, various implementations determine anumber of insights to include based upon the total playback duration,whether an advertisement is being included in the narrated analyticsplaylist, and/or the advertisement duration of the advertisement. Forinstance, if no advertisement is being included in a narrated analyticsplaylist directed to a particular input query, the personalizedanalytics system can determine to include four insights to achieve adesired playback duration for the narrated analytics playlist. However,for the same input query, the personalized analytics system candetermine to include three insights when an advertisement is beingincluded in the narrated analytics playlist. The personalized analyticssystem can alternately or additionally select the three insights basedupon respective complexities and/or playback durations. Thus, theinclusion of an advertisement can affect how the personalized analyticssystem configures a narrated analytics playlist (e.g. how many insightsto include, what insights to include, etc.). In some implementations,the personalized analytics system can determine to include anadvertisement in the narrated analytics playlist if the total playbackduration falls below a playback duration threshold and/or additionalfree time (e.g. unused) has been identified.

Various implementations remove insights and/or scenes from the narratedanalytics playlist based upon the playback duration threshold value. Toillustrate, consider an example in which the personalized analyticssystem determines to include X scenes that correspond to variousinsights, where X is an arbitrary number. The personalized analyticssystem can calculate the total playback duration for the scenes asfurther described herein, and compare the total playback duration to theplayback duration threshold value. If the total playback duration isunder and/or meets the playback duration threshold value, variousimplementations determine to include all of the X scenes in the narratedanalytics playlist. However, if the total playback duration exceeds theplayback duration threshold value, one or more implementations determineto exclude some of the X scenes from the narrated analytics playlist.

To determine which scenes to exclude from the narrated analyticsplaylist, one or more implementations rank each respective scene of theX scenes, such as by computing a “value to business” ranking usingmachine learning algorithms. As one example, the machine learningalgorithms can correlate scene content to the input query, and generatea value ranking based upon the correlation. However, other types ofranking algorithms can be applied as well. In turn, the personalizedanalytics system can determine to identify which of the scenes havelower rankings relative to other scenes, and determine to exclude N ofthe lowest ranking scenes from the narrated analytics playlist as a wayto adjust the total playback duration. As another example, thepersonalized analytics system determines which scenes of the X scenes toexclude from the narrated analytics playlist based on anecdotalinformation, such as by removing scenes that the anecdotal informationindicates the user is less likely to watch relative to other scenes.Accordingly, the personalized analytics system can determine whichscenes to exclude based upon ranking information and/or anecdotalinformation associated with a user.

Now consider FIG. 32 that illustrates an example method 3200 thatdetermines a respective playback duration for each scene in a narratedanalytics playlist in accordance with one or more implementations. Themethod can be performed by any suitable combination of hardware,software, and/or firmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of themethod can be implemented by one or more suitably configured hardwarecomponents and/or software modules, such as various hardware and/orsoftware modules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104of FIG. 1, such as various modules included in personalized analyticsmodule 106 and/or client analytics module 108. While the methoddescribed in FIG. 32 illustrates these steps in a particular order, itis to be appreciated that any specific order or hierarchy of the stepsdescribed here is used to illustrate an example of a sample approach.Other approaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps.Thus, the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

At 3202, a plurality of scenes to include in a narrated analyticsplaylist is identified. For example, story narrator module 1116 of FIG.11 identifies scene 3106, scene 3108, scene 3110, and scene 3112 ofnarrated analytics playlist 3104 based upon input from insight enginemodule 1114 as further described herein.

In response to identifying the plurality of scenes, a respectiveplayback duration for each respective scene of the plurality of scenesis determined based, at least in part, on content associated with therespective scene at 3204. For example, story narrator module 1116determines a respective playback duration for scene 3106, scene 3108,scene 3110, and scene 3112 of narrated analytics playlist 3104. Inimplementations, story narrator module 1116 identifies a respectivecomplexity of the respective scene, and assigns the respective scene therespective playback duration based on the respective complexity. Therespective complexity can be identified in any manner, such as byidentifying an amount of text associated with the respective scene,identifying a number of content objects associated with the respectivescene, a type of chart included in the scene, etc. If the respectivecomplexity falls below a playback complexity threshold value, the storynarrator module assigns the respective scene a default playback durationas the respective playback duration. If the respective complexity fallsabove the playback complexity threshold value, the story narrator moduleassigns the respective playback duration a value that corresponds to thedefault playback duration combined with an additional playback duration.

At 3206, a narrated analytics playlist is generated based, at least inpart, on said calculating. Story narrator module 1116, for instance,generates the narrated analytics playlist using the respective playbackdurations calculated at 3202. Alternately or additionally, the storynarrator module calculates a total playback duration associated with theplurality of scenes, and compares the total playback duration to aplayback duration threshold value as a way determine if the narratedanalytics playlist meets a playback duration specification. In someimplementations, story narrator module 1116 determines to modify theplurality of scenes to meet the playback duration specification.

Having described calculating playback duration for a narrated analyticsplaylist, consider now a discussion of generating headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations. Generally, the variousimplementations described below may be combined in various ways with theimplementations described above, such as by combining and executing thedifferent systems and functionalities described throughout thisdisclosure to realize the implementations discussed below.

Headlines Based on Extracted Insights

As part of various aspects for generating headlines, FIG. 33 depictsadditional details concerning the headline module 136. To illustrate,the headline module 136 includes a summarization module 3300, a rankingmodule 3302, a deduplicator module 3304, and a headline database 3306.The summarization module 3300 represents functionality for extractingheadlines from larger sets of data, such as anecdotal data, insightdata, narrated analytics playlists, and so forth. In at least oneimplementation, the summarization module 3300 extracts keywords relatedto data sets in various ways, such as query keywords obtained from theparser module 112 (e.g., based on user-generated queries), topicinformation (e.g., metadata) from a data set, user input identifyingkeywords of interest, and so forth.

The ranking module 3302 represents functionality for ranking headlinesgenerated by the summarization module 3300. The summarization module3300, for instance, generates a set of headlines to be made availablefor output at a particular time, and the ranking module 3302 ranks theheadlines based on a particular set of ranking criteria. The set ofheadlines can then be output based on their ranking, such as indescending ranked order. In implementations where a large group ofheadlines are generated and ranked, only those headlines that meet aparticular ranking criteria may be output. Further details concerningheadline ranking are discussed below.

The deduplicator module 3304 represents functionality for identifyingand removing duplicate headlines. For instance, the deduplicator module3304 compares headline candidates generated by the summarization module3300 to determine if any of the headline candidates are duplicates ofone another. If duplicate headline candidates are identified, thededuplicator module 3304 can remove the duplicate headline candidatesprior to the headline candidates being marked as headlines for output.In at least one implementation, where two headline candidates areidentified as duplicates of one another, the lowest ranked headlinecandidate can be removed.

To enable efficient storage and retrieval of headline data, the headlinedatabase 3306 is maintained by the headline module 136. Generally, theheadline database 3306 stores various types of data pertaining toheadlines, such as headline content and headline metadata. In at leastone implementation, the headline database 3306 is arranged as arelational database that arranges and stores headline data based onrelationships between headlines and/or data utilized to generateheadlines, such as curated data, insight data, and so forth. Theheadline database 3306, for instance, may be implemented in conjunctionwith the curated relational data model database 1202 to arrange headlinedata based on various relational models, examples of which are describedwith reference to FIG. 12.

FIG. 34 depicts a system 3400 that is operable to provide an overview oftechniques for automated summarization of extracted insight datadescribed herein. In the system 3400, the curation engine module 110takes user data 3402 as input and generates curated data 3404 based onthe user data 3402. Generally, the user data 3402 can take variousforms, such as anecdotal data observed and/or generated by thepersonalized analytics module 106. Example ways for generating thecurated data 3404 are detailed previously.

The insight engine module 116 then takes the curated data 3404 as inputand generates insight data 3406, which is generally representative ofinsights generated according to the techniques described above. In atleast some implementations, the insight data 3406 includes differentdiscrete instances of insights that are individually usable fordifferent purposes, such as generating narrated analytics playlists,generating headlines, and so forth. Generally, the insight data 3406 canbe generated in response to various events and stored for various usagepurposes, such as in the database 124. The insight data 3406, forinstance, can be generated on a temporal basis, such as periodically,based on time events observed in user behaviors, scheduled calendarevents, and so forth.

Further to the system 3400, the headline module 136 detects a triggerevent 3408 indicating that the headline module 136 is to generate a setof headlines. Generally, the trigger event 3408 can take various forms,such as a periodic event indicating that headlines are to be generatedon a predefined periodic basis, a temporal event generated based on apreviously-observed user activity, a detected calendar event, and soforth. Example ways for generating and configuring the trigger event3408 are discussed below. Based on the trigger event 3408, the headlinemodule 136 takes the insight data 3406 as input, and the summarizationmodule 3300 processes the insight data 3406 to generate headlinecandidates 3410. Generally, each headline candidate 3410 represents asummarization of information described in different portions of theinsight data 3406. The ranking module 3302 then processes the headlinecandidates 3410 to generate ranked candidates 3412, which represent theheadline candidates 3410 ranked based on a set of ranking criteria. Inat least one implementation, the ranking criteria pertain to a set ofperformance metrics associated with a particular user profile. A user,for instance, identifies a set of performance metrics that relate to theuser data 3402. Accordingly, the ranking module 3302 analyzes theheadline candidates to determine their relative correspondence to theperformance metrics, and assigns a ranking value to each headlinecandidate 3410 based on its relative correspondence. For instance,headline candidates with the highest correspondence with the performancemetrics are given a higher-ranking value than those with lowercorrespondence. Accordingly, the ranked candidates 3412 represent theheadline candidates 3410 arranged in order of their respective rankingvalues, such as highest to lowest.

Continuing, the deduplicator module 3304 compares the ranked candidates3412 to identify and remove duplicate candidates 3414 from the rankedcandidates 3412. Generally, the duplicate candidates 3414 representranked candidates 3412 that are duplicates of other ranked candidates.The deduplicator module 3304 may identify duplicates in various ways,such as based on semantic and/or textual comparison of the rankedcandidates. As further detailed below, the deduplicator module 3304 canemploy a matching algorithm that generates identifiers for headlinecandidates and compares the identifiers to identify headline candidateswith similar identifiers. For instance, when two duplicate headlinecandidates are identified, one of the duplicates is removed. In animplementation where deduplication is performed on the ranked candidates3412, a duplicate ranked candidate with a lower ranking is removed.Although deduplication is discussed with reference to the rankedcandidates 3412, deduplication may alternatively or in addition beperformed on the headline candidates 3410 and prior to ranking by theranking module 3302.

Accordingly, the headline module 136 generates headlines 3416 thatrepresent the ranked candidates 3412 with the duplicate candidates 3414removed. Further, the headlines 3416 can be arranged in ranked order,such as for output based on their order from the ranked candidates 3412.The headlines 3416 can be used for various purposes, such as provided tothe story narrator module 118 and/or the animator module 120 for outputas part of an analytics experience, e.g., a narrated analytics playlist.

FIG. 35 depicts an example scenario 3500 for generating trigger events3502. Generally, the trigger events 3502 are based on trigger data 3504indicating that headlines are to be generated for various purposes. Inthis particular example, the headline module 136 takes various types oftrigger data 3504 as input, and generates the trigger events 3502 basedon the input data. Examples of the trigger data 3504 used to generatethe trigger events 3502 include calendar events 3506, metric events3508, environmental events 3510, and request events 3512. The calendarevents 3506 generally represent time-related events, such as generatedand/or observed by the calendar module 138. In this particular example,the calendar events 3506 include scheduled events 3514 and time-relatedbehaviors 3516. The scheduled events 3514 represent events that arescheduled for specific days and times, such as meetings, conferences,academic events, social events, and so forth. In at least oneimplementation, a user can interact with functionality provided by thecalendar module 138 to generate the scheduled events 3514. Additionally,the scheduled events 3514 can be pushed to the calendar module 138 fromother users, such as a different user that sends an electronicinvitation to a user of the computing device 104 to participate in aparticular event. Accordingly, a trigger event 3408 can be generatedbased on the scheduled events 3514, such as to generate headlines priorto (e.g., at a predefined time interval prior to) a scheduled event3514, and/or to generate headlines that are pertinent to subject matterof a scheduled event 3514.

The time-related behaviors 3516 represent data that describes differentbehaviors that exhibit temporal trends and/or temporal commonalities.For instance, the time-related behaviors 3516 are based on userbehaviors that are observed over time and that demonstrate some type ofconsistent temporal pattern, such as user behaviors that are observed tooccur within a consistent time range over a period of time. As oneexample, consider that a user typically interacts with the computingdevice 104 at a particular time and/or time range during the day (e.g.,between 9:00-9:15 am) during the work week to access the clientanalytics module 108 and consume content generated by the personalizedanalytics module 106. Accordingly, the time-related behaviors 3516 canreflect this behavior, and a trigger event 3408 can be generated basedon this behavior. For instance, a trigger event 3408 can be generatedbased on the time-related behaviors 3516, such as to generate headlinesprior to (e.g., at a predefined time interval prior to) apreviously-observed observed time-related behavior 3516.

The metric events 3508 represent data that pertains to events that occurthat are pertinent to defined metrics (e.g., KPIs), such as metricsselected by a user as metrics of interest. For instance, consider that auser identifies a metric of interest as “sales of Product A in RegionB.” Accordingly, a metric event 3508 can represent a significant eventthat is detected that pertains to this metric of interest. For instance,if a significant fluctuation in the sales of Product A in Region B isobserved, this fluctuation can cause a trigger event 3408 to begenerated. Thus, the metric events 3508 can represent phenomena thatpertain to defined metrics of interest and that are observed to occuroutside of a typically observed and/or a user-defined range of values.

The environmental events 3510 represent data that describes differentevents that occur in relation to an environment of interest, such as aphysical environment in which the computing device 104 is located, asystem environment of the computing device 104, and/or a systemenvironment pertaining to the personalized analytics module 106. Forinstance, consider that the computing device 104 includes sensors fordetecting various environmental conditions, such as light, sound,temperature, vibrations, motion, user proximity and/or identity, and soforth. Accordingly, environmental events 3510 can describe differentenvironmental conditions to be used as trigger events 3502, such aschanges in light levels (e.g., when lights are turned on in asurrounding environment), temperature fluctuations that exceed aspecified threshold, voice recognition that identifies specific users,user presence detection based on motion, biometric user detection (e.g.,facial recognition), and so on.

As another example, environmental events 3510 can include events thatpertain to a system environment of the computing device 104, such aschanges in power state (e.g., a power on event, a hibernation event, andso forth), changes in network state (e.g., connection to a particulartype and/or instance of a network, a change (e.g., increase) inavailable network bandwidth), changes in device resource state (e.g., anincrease in available processor and/or memory resources), and so forth.Still further, environmental events 3510 can include system environmentpertaining to the personalized analytics module 106. For instance, thepersonalized analytics module 106 may receive notifications of varioussystem events that may affect headline-related attributes, such assignificant fluctuations in performance metrics for defined metrics ofinterest. Accordingly, trigger events 3502 can be defined for differentenvironmental events 3510.

Continuing, the request events 3512 represent data that describesdifferent requests for headlines, such as user input to request thatheadlines be generated. The request events 3512, for instance, mayrepresent dynamic events that occur, such as on-demand requests by auser for headlines. Alternatively or in addition, the request events3512 represent scheduled requests for headlines, such as user input torequest that headlines be generated on a scheduled basis. For instance,a user may interact with the client analytics module 108 to request thatheadlines be generated on specific days, times, on a periodicreoccurring basis, and so forth.

Accordingly, the different events defined as part of the trigger data3504 can be used to generate the trigger events 3502, which representevents used to trigger generation of headlines.

FIG. 36 depicts an example scenario 3600 for utilizing machine learningfor generating different types of data pertaining to headlines. In thescenario 3600, different organizations 3602 maintain different user datasets 3604 for different users affiliated with the respectiveorganizations 3602. Further, the user data sets 3604 each include userprofiles 3606 and user content 3608. The user profiles 3606 generallyrepresent data that describes user-profile specific attributes, such asuser preferences, user settings, user behaviors on associated systems,user permissions, and so forth. In at least one implementation, the userprofiles 3606 identify, for individual user profiles, performancemetrics of interest to individual users, such as KPIs of interest thatare manually and/or automatically selected for individual user profiles3606. The user content 3608 represents content that is obtained fromvarious sources and that is tailored to individual user profiles 3606.The user content 3608, for instance, can be obtained by queryingdifferent data sources with user-specific content queries, such as thedatabase and data warehouses 1104 and/or cloud applications 1106. Thus,for each user data set 3604, the user content 3608 can reflect contentthat is relevant to user attributes identified in the user profiles3606.

In the scenario 3600, an organization 3602 a utilizes a user data set3604 a for a particular user to generate insight data 3406 that isusable for various purposes, such as generating headlines to be servedto a particular user. To do this, the curation engine module 110 takesthe user content 3608 a as input and processes the user content 3608 ato generate the curated data 3404. Example ways for curating data arepresented in detail above. In this particular example, the curationengine module 110 leverages a curation model 3610, which represents amachine learning model (and/or set of models) that is trained to processthe user content 3608 and generated the curated data 3404. In at leastone implementation, the data from the user profile 3606 a is utilized togenerate training data that is used to train the curation model 3610.For instance, user preferences and user behaviors identified in the userprofile 3606 a are used to train the curation model 3610 to extract dataof interest from the user content 3608 a and generated the curated data3404.

The insight engine module 116 then takes the curated data 3404 as inputand processes the curated data 3404 to generate the insight data 3406.In this particular example, the insight engine module 116 leverages aninsight model 3612, which represents a machine learning model (and/orset of models) that is trained to process the curated data 3404 andgenerate the insight data 3406. In at least one implementation, the datafrom the user profile 3606 a is utilized to generate training data thatis used to train the insight model 3612. Further, the insight model 3612can be trained to recognize certain types of insights, such asanalogies, anomalies, outliers, segmentations, etc.

To generate headlines based on the insight data 3406, the headlinemodule 136 leverages a headline model 3614 to generate headline data3616. Generally, the headline model 3614 represents a machine learningmodel (and/or set of models) that is trained to process the insight data3406 and generate the headline data 3616. The headline model 3614 can betrained in various ways, such as using portions of the user data set3604 a. For instance, data from the user profile 3606 a that describesuser interactions with headlines can be used to train the headline model3614 to extract headlines of interest from the insight data 3406. Thiscan include data describing which types of headlines are more frequentlyaccessed by a user, such as specific subject matter represented infrequently accessed headlines. Generally, by training the headline model3614 to process the insight data 3406 and extract headlines of interest,the headline model 3614 is able quickly identify headlines from theinsight data 3406, which lowers system latency time (e.g., of the server102 and/or the computing device 104) and increases device performance,such as by increasing processing speed.

As detailed above such as with reference to FIGS. 15, 20A, 20B,algorithms that are utilized as part of generating curated data andinsights can be tuned and evolve to provide for more accurate andrelevant output. Accordingly, as the organization 3602 a applies andevolves the curation model 3610, the insight model 3612, and theheadline model 3614 over time, the organization 3602 a generateslearning data 3618 that describes attributes of the models as evolvedover time. In at least one implementation, the learning data 3618includes data that describes changes to the different models that aremade based on user feedback, such as positive and/or negative feedbackregarding headlines that are presented to a user. The learning data3618, for instance, includes model parameters 3620 that describeparameters of the respective models, such as weights used in anartificial neural network, hyper-parameter values, support vectors in asupport vector machine, coefficients in a linear regression or logisticregression algorithm, an assumed distribution used in a statisticalanalysis (e.g., Gaussian distribution, binomial distribution, degeneratedistribution, etc.), and so forth.

To enable the learning data 3618 to be utilized by others of theorganizations 3602, the learning data 3618 is propagated to theproximity platform module 122. Prior to this, however, the organization3602 a extracts personalized data from the learning data 3618, such asdata that may provide visibility into values of the user data set 3604a, curated data 3404, the insight data 3406, and/or the headline data3616. Accordingly, the proximity platform module 122 can distribute thelearning data 3618 among the organizations 3602 for use in tuning theiralgorithms without exposing sensitive data utilized by the organization3602 a as part of generating the insight data 3406. Similarly, others ofthe organizations 3602 can generate their own respective sets oflearning data that are obtainable by the organization 3602 a from theproximity platform module 122 for use in tuning and evolving thecuration model 3610, the insight model 3612, and/or the headline model3614.

FIG. 37A depicts a scenario 3700A for generating insights for use ingenerating headline candidates. In the scenario 3700A, the insight model3612 is trained using training data 3702 to predict and/or categorizedifferent types of insights. Generally, the training data 3702 can beaggregated from a variety of different data sources, such as the userdata sets 3604, the curated data 3404, the learning data 3618, and soforth. The training data 3702, for instance, trains the insight model3612 to process the curated data 3404 and to identify and categorizedifferent insights from the curated data 3404. In at least someimplementations, the insight model 3612 is implemented as amulti-layered architecture (e.g., a layered neural network) whereindividual layers perform specific tasks, such as feature extraction,feature prediction, feature ranking, and so forth.

Consider, for example, that the insight model 3612 takes the curateddata 3404 as input and performs feature extraction to identify insightinstances 3704 from the curated data 3404. Generally, the insightinstances 3704 represent individual collections of related data thateach describe potential data of interest, such as metrics of interestidentified for a particular user. Further, the insight model 3612generates a predicted insight type 3706 for each of the insightinstances 3704. As mentioned previously, various types (e.g.,categories) of insights can be defined (e.g., analogies, anomalies,outliers, segmentations) and the insight model 3612 can be leveraged topredict a likelihood that individual features extracted from data (e.g.,the curated data 3404) correspond to particular types of insights.

For instance, consider the notion of “outliers” and “anomalies,” whichgenerally represent data sets that deviate from expected data pointsand/or data patterns. To identify outliers/anomalies, the insight model3612 generates probability values (“p-values”) that estimate theprobability of occurrence of a particular observation obtained from anextracted data feature. If a p-value for a particular observation isabove a particular threshold, this may indicate that the observation isexpected based on part observations (e.g., from the training data 3702),and thus is not an outlier/anomaly. However, if a p-value for aparticular observation is below a threshold value (e.g., 0.05), thisindicates that the observation is below a threshold probability and thusrepresents an outlier or an anomaly. Further, as part of generatingheadlines generated from outlier/anomaly insights, those observationswith the lowest p-value can selected as headlines.

Consider another example for segmentation insights. Generally,segmentation (e.g., clusters) insight can be predicted by the insightmodel 3612 based on a purity of each segment/cluster. For instance,segmentation is performed by grouping data samples (e.g., from thecurated data 3404) which are similar to each other. Further, the insightmodel 3612 calculates the similarity of data samples within a group orsegment using a metric called a “silhouette” whose values are between −1and 1. A segment insight is said to be pure if the silhouette value forthe segment is above a threshold, e.g., is close to 1. For purposes ofselecting headlines from segmentation insights, those headlines with thehighest silhouette values can be selected.

In another example, analogies can be identified based on occurrencesover defined time-series. For instance, univariate time series analogiesrepresent analogy headlines identified based on maximum and minimumgrowth rates of metrics of interest. Multivariate time series analogiesrepresent analogy headlines identified based on growth of ahighest-ranking headline attribute. Generally, a headline can be made upof different headline attributes (e.g., words, phrases, values) thateach represent a particular parameter, such as a metric, userpreference, and so forth.

In another example, growth rate headlines can be identified based ongrowth rates of various metrics over time. For instance, univariategrowth rate headlines represent headlines identified based on maximumand minimum growth rates for a headline over a particular time period.Multivariate growth headline represent headlines identified based ongrowth for a highest-ranking headline attributes of a period of time.

In a further example, headlines can be generated directly from timeseries analyses. For instance, a univariate time series analysisheadline can be generated based on an observed slope where a particularobserved time series trend is not flat. A “seasonal” univariate timeseries analysis headline can be generated where an observed trend is notflat, and the headline can be generated to include a maximum correctioncalculated as part of the trend.

Multivariate time series analyses headlines can also be generated. Forinstance, if an identified trend of a highest-ranking headline attributeof a headline attribute is not flat, the slope of the headline candidatecan be used to generate a headline. Further, if a trend of thehighest-ranking attribute is not flat, the maximum correction calculatedas part of the trend can be used to generate a headline.

These example insight and headline types are presented for purposes ofexample only, and it is to be appreciated at implementations describedherein can utilized a variety of different insight and headlinecategorizations for generating headlines.

FIG. 37B depicts a scenario 3700B for generating headline candidates foruse in generating headlines. In the scenario 3700, the insight enginemodule 116 parses the insight data 3406 into insight instances 3704a-3704 n. One example way for generating the insight instances 3704 isdescribed above and leverages the insight model 3612. Generally, eachinsight instance 3704 represents a body of content data that pertains toa particular subject matter that is determined by the insight enginemodule 116 to represent an insight of potential interest to a user. Eachinsight instance 3704, for example, is separately usable for differentpurposes, such as generating a headline 3416 and/or a narrated analyticsplaylist. Further, each insight instance 3704 can include differenttypes of content, such as text, images, audio, animations, and so forth.

In at least some implementations, the insight instances 3704 areidentified based on performance metrics (e.g., KPIs) of potentialinterest to a user, such as based on explicit user input to identify theperformance metrics, and/or based on metrics of interest implied fromuser behaviors. For instance, the insight engine module 116 may interactwith the KPI generation module 1218 to identify performance metrics ofinterest for use in generating insight instances upon which headlinesare based. Examples of different performance metrics are discussed abovewith reference to the curation engine module 1200.

Further to the scenario 3700, the summarization module 3300 processesthe insight instances 3704 a-3704 n and generates headline candidates3410 a-3410 n that each represent a potential headline that describesattributes of a respective insight instance 3704. Generally, theheadline candidates 3410 represent a summarization of content includedin respective insight instances 3704 and can be generated in variousways. For instance, the summarization module 3300 can apply varioustypes of processing to the insight instances 3704 to generate theheadline candidates, such as keyword extraction, image processing andrecognition, audio processing and recognition, natural languageprocessing and phrase generation, and so forth.

Consider, for example, that the insight instance 3704 a pertains to achange in a performance metric of interest to a user, such as sales ofProduct A in Region B. The insight instance 3704 a may include variouscontent relating to this performance metric, such as sales statisticsover a period of time, store statistics for locations in Region B thatsell Product A, text-based reports generated to describe differenttrends pertaining to the performance metric, and so forth. Accordingly,the summarization module 3300 parses the insight instance 3704 a togenerate the headline candidate 3410 a as a summarization of the insightinstance 3704 a as it affects the performance metric. The headlinecandidate 3410 a, for example, includes content such as text, images,audio, and so forth, that summarizes the insight instance 3704 a. Thus,the remaining headline candidates 3410 further represent summarizationsof their respective insight instances 3704.

FIG. 38A depicts a scenario 3800A for ranking headline candidates. Inthe scenario 3800, the summarization module 3300 maintains the headlinecandidates 3410, such as generated previously. The ranking module 3302processes the headline candidates 3410 to generated the rankedcandidates 3412. Generally, the ranking module 3302 can employ differenttypes and combinations of ranking algorithms to rank the headlinecandidates. For instance, the ranked candidates 3412 represent theheadline candidates 3410 as ranked based on their relative correlationwith a defined performance metric. For instance, consider that aperformance metric of interest is defined as topline sales of aparticular organization. Further, consider that the headline candidate3410 a describes that sales of Product A in Region B increased toplinesales of the organization by 1.5%, and the headline candidate 3410 ndescribes that sales of Product C in Region D increased topline sales ofthe organization by 3.0%. Accordingly, since headline candidate 3410 nhas a greater impact on topline sales, it's ranked above headlinecandidate 3410 a in the ranked candidates 3412. Similarly, the otherheadline candidates 3410 are ranked based on their impact on aperformance metric and/or set of performance metrics. This is not to beconstrued as limiting, however, and a variety of other rankingalgorithms may additionally or alternatively be utilized, such asfiltering algorithms, object ranking algorithms, instance rankingalgorithms, playback rankings, scored queries correlating to metrics ofinterest (e.g., KPIs) and associated headlines, click-stream analysisfor metrics of interest and drill-path info related to headlines,knowledge graph attributes that correlate with metrics of interest andheadlines, metric-based usage rankings, headline quality rankings,curated attributes correlations to headlines (e.g., preferred verbiageof a user), data inferences correlating to headline keywords, contextualrankings of metrics of interest to headlines, etc.

FIG. 38B depicts a scenario 3800B describing details in an exampleimplementation for ranking headlines, such as for generating the rankedcandidates 3412. In the scenario 3800B, the ranking module 3302 receivesa headline candidate 3410 from the summarization module 3300. Theranking module 3302 then performs attribute parsing 3802 on the headlinecandidate 3410 to generate a set of headline attributes 3804 from theheadline candidate 3410. Generally, the headline attributes 3804represent different portions of the headline candidate (e.g., words,phrases, values, etc.) that represent pre-defined headline parameters,such as attributes that correspond to metrics of interest, values formetrics, sentiment values, and so forth. Thus, the ranking module 3302parses the headline candidate into the different headline attributes Qincluding headline attributes 3804 a, 3804 b, and 3804 n.

The ranking module 3302 then performs attribute weighting 3806, whichapplies a weighting algorithm to generate a raw weighting value 3808 foreach headline attribute 3804. One example weighting algorithm utilizes,for each headline attribute 3804, a sum of: (parameter value+weight ofthe parameter+a personalization factor+a time relevance element+a modeldiagnostic output). Generally, each of these values can be system and/oruser defined, such as to correspond to specific user preferences and/ormetrics of interest. Further, the values applied may be based onspecific insight types from which a headline is generated. For instance,the parameter value can be specified to indicate a relative value for aparticular instance of a parameter, such as based on a magnitude (e.g.,numerical value) associated with an instance of a parameter. The weightof parameter can correspond to a weighting value applied to a parameter,such as based on impact of the parameter on a metric of interest.Generally, different weighting values can be defined for differentparameters.

Continuing, the personalization factor can represent a value that isdetermined based on relative correspondence of a headline attributes touser-specific information, such as user preferences expressly identifiedby a user, and/or user-observed behaviors. The time relevance elementrepresents a value that quantifies a temporal relevance for a headlineattribute, such as how recently the headline attribute was generated,and/or a relative recency of a time period to which a headline attributepertains to. The model diagnostic output represents a value thatquantifies a relative correspondence of a headline attribute to aspecified category, such as a category on insight used to generateheadlines. In at least one implementation, the model diagnostic outputcan be based on a value output by the insight model 3612, such as aprobability value indicating a probability that a particular insightused to generate a headline corresponds to a particular insight type.Accordingly, the different values generated for each attribute 3804a-3804 n are used (e.g., summed) to generate weighting values 3808a-3808 n for the respective attributes 3804.

The ranking module 3302 then performs weight normalization 3810 on theweighting values 3808 a-3808 n to generate respective normalized weights3812 a-3812 n. For instance, an average weighting of the weightingvalues 3808 a-3808 n is calculated, and is used to normalize theweighting values 3808 a-3808 n to generate the respective normalizedweights 3812 a-3812 n. The ranking module 3302 then performs weightaggregation 3814 to aggregate (e.g., sum) the normalized weights 3812a-3812 n to generate a ranking value 3816. The ranking value 3816, forinstance, can be compared with ranking values for other headlines torank the headline candidate 3410 relative to the other headlines.Accordingly, the process described in the scenario 3800B can beperformed for each headline candidate of a set of headline candidates togenerate a ranking value for each headline candidate, and the rankingvalues can be utilized to arranged the headline candidates in a rankedorder such as described in the scenario 3800A.

FIG. 39 depicts a scenario 3900 for deduplicating headline candidates.In the scenario 3900, the deduplicator module 3304 process the rankedcandidates 3412 to identify the headlines candidates 3410 b, 3410 d asduplicate candidates 3414. The deduplicator module 3304, for instance,compares attributes of the different ranked candidates 3412, anddetermines that the headline candidates 3410 b, 3410 d have matchingattributes.

In at least one implementation, to compare headline candidates andidentify duplicates, a headline identifier (“ID”) 3902 is generated foreach headline candidate 3410. For instance, the headline candidates 3410are of different types depending on an insight type used to generate theheadline candidate. Generally, different insight types can be defined,such as “analogies,” “anomalies,” “outliers,” “segmentations,” and soforth. Thus, for each insight type, different parameters can be used togenerate a respective the headline ID 3902. These parameters may includemeasure name, measure value, dimension name, dimension value, and soforth, captured by the insight type. These parameters can then be usedto generate a headline ID 3902 for each headline candidate 3410, and theheadline IDs 3902 can be compared to identify matching headline IDs3902. For instance, for each headline candidate 3410, the parameters arecombined into a formula and a hash code of the formula is saved as aheadline ID 3902 for the respective headline candidate. Thus, the hashcodes for different headline candidates 3410 can be compared to identifymatching hash codes, indicating duplicate headlines.

For instance, consider FIG. 40, which depicts a scenario 4000illustrating an example way for generating and comparing headlines IDs.In this particular non-limiting example, the headline candidates 3410 b,3410 d represent “outlier” insight types, and headline IDs for theheadline candidates can be generated based on the following HeadlineFormula:

-   -   {{sentiment}}_{{measure}}_{{isGrowth}}_{{msrValue}}

The headline candidate 3410 b includes headline content 4002 b and theheadline candidate 3410 d includes headline content 4002 d, which eachrepresent different respective text strings extracted from insight datafrom which the headline candidates 3410 b, 3410 d were generated. Byapplying the Headline Formula mentioned above to the headline content4002 b, 4002 d, ID text values 4004 b, 4004 d are extracted from theheadline content 4002 b, 4002 d, respectively. For instance, for eachheadline content 4002 b, 4002 d, the “sentiment” value is “POSITIVE,”the “measure” value is “Sales,” the “isGrowth” value is “false,” and themsrValue is “$136,606.” The ID text values 4004 b, 4004 d are thenhashed to generate the headlines IDs 3902 b, 3902 d, respectively. Asillustrated, the headline IDs 3902 b, 3902 d are duplicates, and thusthe headline candidates 3410 b, 3410 d are identified as duplicateheadline candidates.

Returning to the scenario 3900, since the headline candidates 3410 b,3410 d are identified as duplicates, the headline candidate 3410 d isdiscarded and/or removed from consideration for generating headlines. Inat least one implementation, the headline candidate 3410 b is retainedfor use as a headline since it is ranked higher than the headlinecandidate 3410 b. Thus, the remaining headline candidates are marked asthe headlines 3416 for further processing.

FIG. 41A depicts a scenario 4100A for generating a narrated analyticsplaylist including insight content and a headline. In the scenario4100A, the story narrator module 118 and the animator module 120cooperate to generate narrated analytics playlists 4102 based on insightinstances 3704 and headlines 3416 for each insight instance. Forexample, the insight instances 3704 with the respective headlines 3416are input to the story narrator module 118, which processes the insightinstances and the headlines to generate scripts 4104. Examplefunctionality and operation of the story narrator module 118 isdiscussed above, such as with reference to FIG. 16. The story narratormodule 118, for instance, determines how to articulate and/or describethe insight instances 3704 with the headlines 3416 received from theinsight engine module 116, such as what visualizations to include in thenarrated analytics playlists 4102 (e.g., charts, graphs, images,tables), what detailed narrative descriptions to include, and so forth.For example, the story narrator module 118 determines augmentationcontent for the insight instances 3704, such as graphics, charts, audioscripts, and animations. The story narrator module 118 then generatesthe scripts 4104 to describe this augmentation content.

Generally, the scripts 4104 can include descriptions of any suitabletype of information, such as charts, narrative descriptions, storylineplots, design information, and so forth. In various implementations, thescripts 4104 indicate not only what type of information is to beincluded in the narrated analytics playlists 4102, but also what orderthe information is presented in, when information is outputsimultaneously (e.g., audible output simultaneously with particulargraphics), when to transition from a first piece of information to asecond piece of information, and so forth. This can be achieved in anysuitable manner, such as by marking transition and/or trigger pointswith flag data, identifying a time duration for each piece ofinformation, and so on.

The animator module 120 obtains the scripts 4104 and generates thenarrated analytics playlists 4102 based on the scripts 4104. Examplefunctionality and operation of the animator module 120 is describedabove, such as with reference to FIG. 17. Generally, this includesgenerating and/or obtaining various types of content for inclusion inthe narrated analytics playlists 4102 as specified in the scripts 4104,such as visuals (images, charts, videos, animations, and so forth),audio (e.g., audio files generated based on the scripts 4104), and soon. Thus, each narrated analytics playlist 4102 includes the variouscontent for output, as well as instructions for outputting the content,such as content ordering and timing.

The narrated analytics playlists 4102, for instance, each includerespective headline content 4002 and playlist content 4106, as specifiedin the scripts 4104. Generally, the headline content 4002 representscontent such as text and images that convey information describing theheadlines 3416. The playlist content 4106 includes content thatrepresents the respective insight instances 3704 used to generate eachnarrated analytics playlist. The headline content 4002, for instance,represents a summary of subject matter included in each insight instance3704, and the playlist content 4106 includes detailed informationdescribing each insight instance 3704. As described below, the narratedanalytics playlists 4102 can be output in various ways.

In at least some implementations, the playlist content 4106 includescontent generated via a drill-up path and/or a drill-down path definedbased on a respective headline. For instance, the drill path generationmodule 1212 (introduced above with reference to FIG. 12) leveragesrelationship data defined by the curated relational data model 1202 todefine different drill paths to provide different perspectives onrelated content used to generate the playlist content 4106. A drill-uppath, for instance, corresponds to a higher-level perspective of subjectmatter pertaining to a headline, such as comparison charts withassociated related topics, to provide contextual information about theprimary subject matter. A drill-down path corresponds to more granularand/or detailed information about primary subject matter, such asspecific points in time, location, demographics, etc.

In an alternative or additional implementation, headlines may begenerated based on previously-compiled narrated analytics playlists. Forinstance, FIG. 41B depicts a scenario 4100B that demonstrates such animplementation. In the scenario 4100B, the headline module 136 receivespreviously-generated narrated analytics playlists 4102 that includeplaylist content 4106. Example ways for generating narrated analyticsplaylists are detailed above, such as with reference to FIGS. 15-19. Thenarrated analytics playlists 4102 include playlist content 4106, such ascontent generated based on various insights. The headline module 136processes the narrated analytics playlists 4102 to generate headlines3416, which each represent a summarization of playlist content 4106 froma respective narrated analytics playlist 4102. Example ways forgenerating the headlines 3416 are detailed throughout, and includeheadline ranking, headline deduplication, and so forth. Accordingly, theheadlines 3416 are inserted as headline content 4002 into respectivenarrated analytics playlists 4102, which can then be output for userconsumption, such as described below.

FIG. 42 depicts a scenario 4200 for outputting headlines included aspart of narrated analytics playlists. In the scenario 4200, thecomputing device 104 obtains the narrated analytics playlists 4102 fromthe server 102. The personalized analytics module 106, for instance,causes the narrated analytics playlists 4102 to be communicated to thecomputing device 104, such as via data communication over thecommunication cloud 128 between the communication module 126 of theserver 102 and the communication module 134 of the computing device 104.

Continuing, the client analytics module 108 leverages the user interfacemodule 130 to generate and output a user interface 4202, and theplayback module 132 outputs the narrated analytics playlists 4102 in theuser interface 4202. As part of outputting the narrated analyticsplaylists 4102, headline indicia 4204 populated with the headlinecontent 4002 are output in a headlines region 4206 of the user interface4202. Generally, each headline indicia 4204 represents a graphicalrepresentation of a different respective analytics playlist 4102. Asfurther detailed below, the headline indicia 4204 are each selectable tocause playlist content 4106 associated with a respective narratedanalytics playlist 4102 to be output.

FIG. 43A illustrates an example implementation of the user interface4202 for the client analytics module 108. As mentioned above, each ofthe headline indicia 4204 is displayed in the headline region 4206 ofthe user interface 4202, and is populated with headline content 4002.Further, the headline indicia 4204 are arranged according to the rankingof the headlines 3416, as discussed above. For instance, a headlineindicia 4204 a is populated with a highest-ranking headline, and theremaining headline indicia are arranged in descending order of headlineranking. Notice also that headline indicia 4204 a, 4204 b are visuallydistinguished from the other headline indicia 4204. In at least someimplementations, visual attributes of headline indicia 4204 can beconfigured based on their relative impact on various criteria, such asuser-defined metrics and/or impact on business metrics such as sales,traffic, conversions, and so forth. For instance, headline indicia 4204that have a greater impact on such metrics can be visual emphasized ascompared with other less impactful headline indicia, such as byincreasing a size of such headline indicia, changing their color, shape,and/or design, animating such headline indicia, and so forth.

The user interface 4202 also includes a continue control 4302, which isselectable to cause additional headline indicia 4204 to be displayed.For instance, selecting the continue control 4302 causes additionalheadline content 4002 to be retrieved and displayed in respectiveheadline indicia 4204, such as to supplement or replace thecurrently-displayed headline indicia. In at least one implementation,the additionally retrieved headline content 4002 is retrieved based onthe ranking order of respective headlines. For instance, headlinecontent 4002 for headlines ranked beneath the currently displayedheadlines is retrieved and displayed based on a selection of thecontinue control 4302.

To enable headlines to be generated based on user searches, the userinterface 4202 includes a search bar 4304. A user, for instance, canenter a search query into the search bar 4304, and the personalizedanalytics module 106 can perform a search (e.g., a query analysis) ofvarious relevant data and generate headlines based on search results.The headlines generated based on the search, for instance, can bepopulated to respective headline indicia 4204 in the user interface4202. Generally, the search can be performed on various data sets, suchas curated data 3404, insight data 3406, the headline candidates 3410,and so forth. Example ways for performing a search query analysis aredescribed in detail above, such as with reference to FIG. 2100, and maybe leveraged to generate headlines based on an input search query.Alternatively, or in addition to utilizing input to the search bar 4304,a headline search query may be initiated in other ways, such as viaaudible input to the computing device 104 that is utilized to initiate aheadline search query at the personalized analytics module 106.Continuing, a user selects the headline indicia 4204 a, which causesplaylist content 4106 from a narrated analytics playlist 4102 associatedwith the headline indicia 4204 a to be output, as depicted in FIG. 44,discussed in detail below.

FIG. 43B depicts an example implementation of the user interface 4202introduced above. In this particular implementation, the user interface4202 is populated with trending headlines 4306, which generallyrepresent that represent highly-ranked headlines that are identifiedbased on correspondence of content of the headlines to metrics ofinterest, such as defined for specific users. The trending headlines4306 can be generated based on a variety of criteria, such as keywordsextracted from headlines based on various ranking criteria of theheadlines, keywords that a user is known to have shown interest,keywords with occurrences in multiple headlines, user's click activityof these trending words, and so forth.

In at least one implementation, subject matter used to generate thetrending headlines 4306 can be obtained from online news sources, suchas publicly available online news sources that generate and publishcurrent events related to a variety of different topics. Thus, each ofthe trending headlines 4306 is selectable to obtain additioninformation, such as to navigate to a news source that can provideadditional information about a respective trending headline.

FIG. 43C depicts an example implementation of the user interface 4202that identifies different headline types for headlines, such as based oninsight types utilized to generate the headlines. In this particularexample, the headline indicia 4204 of the user interface 4202 includesanomaly headlines 4308 a, 4308 b, an analogy headline 4310, a segmentheadline 4312, and an outlier headline 4314. Different aspects of theseheadline types are discussed throughout, and specific about attributesof these headline types are provided below in the discussion of themethod 4800. Thus, implementations enable specific headline types to beidentified to enable a user to select a headline type of interest,and/or for use in sorting headlines by headline type.

FIG. 43D depicts an example implementation of the user interface 4202 inwhich headline indicia are sized based on their relative headlineranking. For instance, a headline indicia 4204 c is larger than theother headline indicia, thus indicating that a headline included in theheadline indicia 4204 c is of higher importance than the otherheadlines, e.g., is ranked higher. Further, a headline indicia 4204 d issmaller than the headline indicia 4204 c, indicating that the respectiveheadline is ranked lower than the headline of the headline indicia 4204c. The user interface 4202 also illustrates headline indicia 4204 e,4204 f, which are smaller than the headline indicia 4204 c, 4204 d,indicating that the headline indicia 4204 e, 4204 f are ranked below theheadline indicia 4204 c, 4204 d.

FIG. 43E depicts a user interface 4316 which, in some implementations,represents a variation on the user interface 4202. The user interface4316, for instance, is configured to enable headline indicia to bedisplayed on a particular device form factor, e.g., a mobile device suchas a mobile phone. As illustrated, the user interface 4316 includesheadline indicia of different sizes, which indicates a relative rankingof the respective headlines. For instance, a headline indicia 4204 g isthe largest, indicating that it is ranked higher than the otherheadlines. Further, a headline indicia 4204 h is smaller than theheadline indicia 4204 g, and is thus ranked lower. Finally, headlineindicia 4204 j and 4204 k are even smaller, indicating a lower rank thanthe other illustrated headlines. While the differentiation in theranking of these headline indicia is depicted used their respectivesize, it is to be appreciated that a variety of other output modalitiesmay be utilized to indicate relative headline ranking, such as color,text formatting, user interface position, content animation, and soforth.

In FIG. 44, a narrated analytics playlist 4102 a is output in the userinterface 4202 in response to selection of the headline indicia 4204 aas discussed with reference to FIG. 43A. Generally, the narratedanalytics playlist 4102 a includes various types of playlist content4106, such as text, images, animations, graphs, and so forth. Detailedexamples of which are discussed above. Depicted in FIG. 44 are playlistportions 4400 a, 4400 b, and 4400 n, which represent different snapshotsof playlist content 4106 that is output during playback of the narratedanalytics playlist 4102 a. During playback of the narrated analyticsplaylist 4102 a, a navigation control 4402 is output that is configuredto receive user input to perform various navigation operations relativeto playback of the narrated analytics playlist 4102 a, such as pausing,skipping forward/backward, resuming playback, and stopping playback.Further, the navigation control 4402 includes a progress indicatorindicating a relative playback progress of the narrated analyticsplaylist. In addition, a return control 4404 is displayed, which isselectable to navigate to other pages presented by the client analyticsmodule 108, such as to return to display of the headlines region 4206.

As discussed above, various attributes pertaining to generatingheadlines are user configurable to provide customized headlineexperiences. Accordingly, FIGS. 45-47 depict different user interfacesthat expose functionality for headline configuration. The user interfacemodule 130 of the client analytics module 108, for example, presentsthese different user interfaces to enable a user to configure differentattributes of headline generation. For instance, FIG. 45 illustrates ametrics user interface 4500 that includes a metrics region 4502, a morecontrol 4504, and an apply control 4506. The metrics region 4502 ispopulated with different metrics (e.g., performance metrics and/or KPIs)that are selectable for use in generating headlines. As discussed above,the selected metrics can be utilized as parameters for generatingheadlines of interest for a user. The more control 4504 is selectable tocause additional different selectable metrics to be presented in themetrics region 4502, and the apply control 4506 is selectable to causemetrics selected from the selected metrics region 4502 to be applied ingenerating headlines. The headline module 136, for instance, utilizesthe selected metrics as parameters for identifying insights of interestto a user, which in turn are used for generating headlines, as describedabove.

FIG. 46 illustrates a context user interface 4600 that enables differentcontext information to be specified for generating headlines. Thecontext user interface 4600, for instance, includes a context region4602, a more control 4604, and an apply control 4606. Generally, thecontext region 4602 includes different instances of context informationthat are selectable to identify context information of interest to auser for purposes of generating headlines. The more control 4604 isselectable to cause additional different selectable context informationto be presented in the context region 4602, and the apply control 4606is selectable to cause context information selected from the selectedcontext region 4602 to be applied in generating headlines. The headlinemodule 136, for instance, utilizes the selected context information asparameters for identifying insights of interest to a user, which in turnare used for generating headlines, as described above. In at least someimplementation, insights of interest are identified based on determinedhow the selected context information affects metrics of interest, suchas selected from the metrics user interface 4502.

Continuing, FIG. 47 illustrates a trigger user interface 4700 thatenables different trigger events and parameters to be configured forgenerating headlines. The trigger user interface 4700, for instance,includes different selectable trigger events, as well as configurableparameters for different trigger events. For instance, a startup option4702 is selectable to specify a trigger event that corresponds to adevice startup event, such as a power on event and/or a log in event ofthe computing device 104. Further, an app launch option 4704 isselectable to specify a trigger event that corresponds to launching aparticular application, such as the client analytics module 108.

The trigger user interface 4700 includes a scheduling region 4706 thatenables trigger events to be scheduled based on specific times and/orother schedule-related events. For instance, a daily option 4708 enablesa user to specify a specific time for headlines to be generated on adaily basis. A weekly option 4710 enables a user to identify a specificday and/or days on which headlines are to be generated, as well asspecific times on the selected day(s). A calendar event option 4712enables a user to select specific time frames relative to scheduledcalendar events (e.g., meetings) at which time headlines are to begenerated.

As discussed above with reference to the scenario 3500, trigger eventsmay also be specified based on events that affect specified metricsand/or context relating to metrics of interest. Accordingly, the triggeruser interface 4700 includes an event region 4714 that enables a user toidentify different trigger parameters for metrics and/or contextinformation of interest. For instance, a metric field 4716 enables auser to identify parameters pertaining to metrics of interest to be userfor triggering headline generation. In this example, a user can selectparticular instances of metrics, such as metrics identified in themetrics user interface 4500. A user can also specify headline generationparameters related to a selected metric of interest, such as an amountof change in the metric, a location for monitoring the metric (e.g., abusiness and/or geographical location), a time parameter, and so forth.

The event region 4714 also includes a context field 4718 that enables auser identify context information of interest for generating headlines,and parameters pertaining to the context information. Different examplesof context information are discussed above, such as with reference tothe context user interface 4600. In addition to selecting contextinformation (in this example, “digital payments”), a user can specifyheadline generation parameters relative to a selected context, such asan amount of change in the selected context item, a location formonitoring the context item (e.g., a business region and/or geographicallocation), a time parameter, and so forth.

The trigger user interface 4700 also includes a behavioral triggercontrol 4720, which is selectable to enable and disable behaviormonitoring for purposes of generating behavioral-based triggering ofheadline generation. For instance, based on user selection to enable thebehavioral trigger control 4720, the headline module 136 monitors userbehaviors pertaining to interactions with various types of contentand/or functionalities, such as headlines, narrated analytics playlists,and so forth. Detected user behaviors can be utilized to generatetrigger events for generating headlines, such as based on varioustime-based and/or system-based user behaviors. The behavioral triggercontrol 4720 is also deselectable to disable behavioral monitoring, suchas based on a user opting out of behavioral monitoring for purposes ofgenerating headlines.

Further, the trigger user interface 4700 includes a more control 4722and an apply control 4724. The more control 4722 is selectable to causeadditional different selectable trigger event options to be presented,and the apply control 4724 is selectable to cause trigger events andevents parameters selected from the trigger user interface 4700 to beapplied in generating headlines. For instance, selected trigger eventsand parameters can be saved as part of the trigger data 3504 for use bythe headline module 136 for triggering headline generation.

Now consider a number of different methods that can be performed furtherto implementations discussed herein, such as for performing aspects ofautomated summarization of extracted insight data. The methods can beperformed by any suitable combination of hardware, software, and/orfirmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of the method can beimplemented by one or more suitably configured hardware componentsand/or software modules, such as various hardware and/or softwaremodules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104 of FIG.1, such as various modules included in personalized analytics module 106and/or client analytics module 108. While the methods illustrate stepsin a particular order, it is to be appreciated that any specific orderor hierarchy of the steps described may be implemented. For instance,other approaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps.Thus, the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

FIG. 48 illustrates an example method 4800 for generating headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations. At 4802, a trigger event isdetected indicating that a headline pertaining to curated data is to begenerated. The headline module 136, for instance, detects a triggerevent. Examples of different trigger events are detailed above, andinclude user specified trigger events and trigger events generated basedon observed user behaviors, environmental conditions, changes in variousmetrics and context information, and so forth.

At 4804, insight data that meets a defined criterion for the headline isextracted based on an analysis of curated data. Generally, the curateddata is generated based on various types of user data, such as describedabove with reference to the scenario 3600. Further, different criteriacan be specified for identifying insights within curated data. In atleast some implementations, the criteria correspond to differentconditions and/or changes in conditions observed in curated data, suchas conditions pertaining to performance metrics (e.g., KPIs) ofpotential interest to a user. The following are some example criteria(e.g., insight types) that can be utilized for identifying a particularset of data as an insight for purposes of generating headlines:

Analogies—an analogy is based on comparison of different data setspertaining to a metric and/or context of interest, such as the examplemetrics (e.g., KPIs) discussed above. Consider, for instance, that auser identifies “Monthly Sales” as a metric of interest. Based on thismetric, an analogy can be identified by comparing monthly sales, such assales between consecutive months, sales between the same month overdifferent years, and so forth. An analogy may also be based on athreshold difference identified in a comparison. For example, athreshold change in monthly sales (+/−n %) may cause an insight to beidentified. One example of analogy compares sales across different timeperiods, e.g., “While Q4 2019 Hot Breakfast Sales has shrunk by −40.10%compared to a quarter ago; it is growing by 10.02% compared to the samequarter a year ago.”

Anomalies—an anomaly represents a set of data points and/or a datapattern relating to a metric and/or context of interest that deviatefrom an expected pattern. For instance, where “Monthly Sales” is ametric of interest, a group of stores that deviate from an averageand/or mean monthly sales can represent an anomaly. One example of ananomaly is “Small Size Coffee sales of $3.86M, comes from Lake Merrittthat are 40% higher than normal. This sale represents 33.2% of totalcoffee sales in Lake Merritt.”

Outliers—an outlier represents a data point relating to a metric and/orcontext of interest that deviates significantly from other data pointsin a set of data points. A threshold deviation, for instance, is definedfor a set of data points, and an outlier represents a data point thatdeviates from the data points by greater than the threshold deviation.One example of an outlier is “A significant portion $161,018 (11.8%) ofyour $1.37M Sales for the past 3 years is from November 2018, andProduct A.”

Segmentation—segmentation represents a group of data points relating toa metric and/or context of interest that deviate from another group ofdata points. For instance, multiple different segments of users can bedefined, such as based on attributes of respective users in eachsegment. Segments that deviate by a threshold amount from other segmentscan be identified as candidates for insights. One example of asegmentation is “A higher value cluster of $28.30 average breakfast salecomes from Stores #23 and #47 in San Jose, contributing to 20.65% totalBreakfast Sales in those stores.”

In an example implementation, different threshold deviations can bedefined for each of the different insight types, such as based on userinput to the personalized analytics module 106. The personalizedanalytics module 106 can compare data points/patterns relating todifferent insights to a respective, and those data points/patterns thatdeviate by at least the threshold deviation can be tagged as arespective insight type, e.g., an analogy, an anomaly, an outlier, asegment, and so forth. Accordingly, a set of curated data that isidentified as corresponding to one of these categories can be labeled asan insight.

Returning to the method 4800, at 4806 the headline is generated based onsummarization data that describes one or more attributes of theextracted insight data. The summarization module 3300, for instance,processes the insight data to identify content such as keywords, images,and audio that can be utilized to summarize the insight data. Thesummarization module 3300, for example, can apply various types ofprocessing to the insight instances 3704 to generate the headlinecandidates, such as keyword extraction, image processing andrecognition, audio processing and recognition, natural languageprocessing and phrase generation, and so forth. The headlines candidatescan then be processed to identify headlines for output, such as viaranking, deduplication, etc.

In at least some implementations, headlines can be generated based oncorrelation to particular insight types and specific intended audiences,such as user types and/or roles associated with the headlines. Forinstance, headlines for an enterprise user may be generated based onin-depth analysis of data such as median and standard deviation fromvalues of interest, e.g., based on identified analogies. Headlines foran executive user, however, can include information about new businesssegments and high and low growth areas over time. Thus, which headlinesare generated and which insights that are used to generate headlines maybe adapted based on how the headlines pertain to users' primary goalsand/or responsibilities, such as in an enterprise environment.

In at least one implementation, data pertaining to generated headlinescan be structured and stored in various ways, such as to enableefficient retrieval and presentation of headlines. For instance, theheadline database 3306 stores headlines based on various relationalmodels and attributes. By way of example, for a particular headline, theheadline database 3306 includes metadata that points to data source(s)used to generate the headline, such as curated data, insight instances,and so forth. The metadata may also identify objects and/or entities towhich headlines correspond to, such as physical objects (e.g.,products), specific events (e.g., services, sales), concepts of interest(e.g., transactions, orders), metrics of interest (e.g., KPIs),timelines (e.g., headlines pertaining to insight data compiled over aperiod of time), and so forth.

At 4808 the headline is output. Detailed ways for outputting headlinesare discussed above, and in at least some implementations, includegenerating a narrated analytics playlist that includes headline contentdescribing a headline, as well as playlist content that represents amore detailed version of insight data used to generate the headline.

At 4810, an expanded representation of the extracted insight data ispresented based on a selection of the headline. A user, for instance,selects the headline, and the playback module 132 initiates playback ofplaylist content associated with the headline.

FIG. 49 illustrates an example method 4900 for retrieving headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations. At 4902, user input isreceived identifying one or more performance metrics and contextualinformation for use in analyzing a data set. A user, for instance,interacts with the computing device 104 to provide input to the clientanalytics module 108 to identify metrics and/or context information ofinterest, examples of which are described above. In at least oneimplementation, the user can select metrics and/or contextualinformation of interest via input to the metrics UI 4500 and/or thecontext UI 4600.

At 4904, user profile data is aggregated based on one or more userinteractions with a client device. The client analytics module 108, forinstance, monitors user interactions with the computing device 104, suchas typical time ranges during which a user performs various tasks over aperiod of time. Examples of such user interactions include power on andpower off events for the computing device 104, application launch events(e.g., the client analytics module 108), content request events (e.g.,requesting headlines from the client analytics module 108), calendaraccess events, email events, and so forth.

At 4906, the performance metrics, the contextual information, and theuser profile data are communicated to a remote resource. The clientanalytics module 108, for instance, causes this data to be communicatedfrom the computing device 104 to the server 102 for utilization by thepersonalized analytics module 106. Generally, the performance metrics,the contextual information, and/or the user profile data can be used forcurating data prior to generating headlines, such as for use by thecuration engine module 110 for curating the user data 3402 to generatecurated data 3404.

At 4908, based on an occurrence of a trigger event identified via theuser profile data, headlines extracted from the data set are receivedthat pertain to the one or more performance metrics and the contextualinformation. For example, the client analytics module 108 receivesheadlines from the personalized analytics module 108, such as based ondata communicated between the server 102 and the computing device 104.In at least one implementation, the headlines are received as part of anarrated analytics playlist that includes headline content and playlistcontent. Generally, the trigger event may be detected in different ways.The client analytics module 108, for instance, detects the trigger eventand notifies the personalized analytics module 106 of the occurrence ofthe trigger event. Alternatively or in addition, the personalizedanalytics module 106 detects the trigger event, such as independent of anotification from the client analytics module 108. Detailed examples ofdifferent trigger events are discussed above.

At 4910, the headlines are output. For example, the client analyticsmodule 108 leverages the user interface module 130 to generate a userinterface, and to output the headlines in the user interface. Outputtingthe headlines can include presenting headline content 4002 associatedwith different narrated analytics playlists 4102. At 4912, an expandedrepresentation of a headline is presented based on a selection of theheadline. A user, for instance, selects a particular headline from thegroup of headlines, and playlist content 4106 associated with theselected headline (e.g., as part of a particular narrated analyticsplaylist 4102) is output.

While the method 4900 is discussed in the context of certain actionsbeing performed remotely from the computing device 104 and the clientanalytics module 108, it is to be appreciated that some or all of therecited operations and functionality may be performed locally by theclient analytics module 108. For instance, instead of offloading thegeneration of headlines to a remote resource such as the personalizedanalytics module 106, the client analytics module 108 may locallyperform some or all of the operations described as being performed atthe personalized analytics module 106.

FIG. 50 illustrates an example method 5000 for ranking headlines inaccordance with one or more implementations. The method 5000, forinstance, may be integrated with the method 4800 and/or the method 4900to enable headlines to be ranked by the personalized analytics module106 and/or the client analytics module 108.

At 5002, headline candidates are generated that are each based onsummarization data that describes one or more attributes of extractedinsight data. The insight engine module 116, for example, generatesdifferent instance of insight data, and the headline module 136generates headline candidates by summarizing each instance of insightdata. Generally, each headline candidate can include various types ofsummarization content, such as text, images, animation, video, audio,and so forth.

At 5004, the headline candidates are ranked based on their respectivecorrespondence to one or more performance metrics associated with theuser profile. The ranking module 3302, for instance, quantifies eachheadline candidate to generate a metric value that characterizes itsrelative impact on a particular metric and/or contextual item ofinterest to a user, examples of which are detailed above. For instance,consider that a particular metric of interest is “cost savings”pertaining to a particular organization, such as an enterprise entity.Accordingly, each headline candidate can be characterized based on itsrelative impact on cost savings. As an example, a first headlinecandidate is “Delivery costs over Q3 2019 were 2.5% lower than Q2 2019,with a cost reduction of $125,150.” A second headline candidate is “Costfor Packaging for Product A increased by 1.2% over Q3 2019 as comparedwith Q2 2019, with a cost increase of $7,315.” By quantifying each ofthe headline candidates compared to a relative costs savings for theorganization, the first headline candidate has a greater impact and isthus has a greater metric value and is ranked higher than the secondheadline candidate. Generating a metric value for a headline candidatecan be performed in various ways, such as based on a value associatedwith the headline candidate, e.g., a percentage value, a numericalvalue, a time value, and so forth. Metric values for different headlinecandidates can then be compared to determine a relative effect of eachmetric value on a metric, and headline candidates that have a greaterimpact on the metric can be ranked higher than headline candidates witha less impact. In at least one implementation, “impact” refers to arelative increase or decrease in a quantity related to a metric ofinterest. Examples of other metrics and/or criteria that can be used forranking headlines include:

User search patterns—the ranking module 3302 can obtain search historyinformation for specific users, and can use frequently searched topicsas ranking criteria.

Time parameters—headlines may also be ranked based on how recently anassociated insight was observed and/or generated. For instance,headlines for more recent insights may be ranked higher than olderinsights.

User interactions with content—different user interactions with contentcan be utilized to rank headlines, such as based on user click patterns,video interactions (e.g., video replays, video pauses), contentforwarding to other users, switching between different types of datacharts, performing further content analysis (e.g., requesting drill pathinformation), a speed with which a user interacts with content afterreceiving the content, etc.

Content annotations—user interactions to annotate content can beutilized as ranking criteria, such as adding notes to content, savingcontent to a file location, content tagging, etc.

Impact on key objectives—different user-related objectives can beutilized as ranking criteria, such as objectives defined for a user'sjob function, related to a currently active project, pertaining toupcoming scheduled calendar events, and so forth.

Insight model data—data from insight-related models can be utilized asranking criteria, such as data utilized by the insight model 3612 togenerate the insight data 3406 can also be utilized as ranking criteria.For instance, the learning data 3618 can be utilized as ranking criteriasince in some cases, the learning data 3618 will indicatecontent-related preferences of users across different organizations3602.

To provide greater accuracy in ranking, the ranking module 3302 may insome cases perform normalization of metric values for headlinecandidates. Generally, normalization helps remove biases and/orundesired characteristics that potentially reduce the integrity and/orquality of metric values, and thus enables more accuracy is gauging aneffect of a headline candidate and its metric value on a metric ofinterest. Example details concerning data normalization are discussedabove, such as in the discussion of FIG. 12.

At 5006, a set of the headline candidates is output based on arespective ranking of each headline candidate in the set. The userinterface module 130, for instance, outputs the headline candidatesarranged in their ranked order, such as in a user interface for userinteraction. Generally, each output headline candidate is selectable tocause a respective expanded representation of extracted insight data tobe presented. For example, selecting a particular headline candidatecauses playlist content associated with the headline candidate to beoutput, such as part of a narrated analytics playlist.

FIG. 5100 illustrates an example method 5100 for identifying andremoving duplicate headlines in accordance with one or moreimplementations. The method 5100, for instance, may be integrated withthe methods 4800-5000 to remove duplicate headlines in conjunction withthe described methods. While implementations are described above thatinclude ranking headline candidates prior to removing duplicateheadlines, it is to be appreciated that deduplication may be performedat various points during headline generation, such as prior to rankingheadline candidates.

At 5102, headline candidates are compared to identify one or moreduplicate headline candidates. Generally, headline candidates can becompared in different ways, such as by the deduplicator module 3304comparing headline content between different headline candidates toidentify headline candidates with duplicate content. For instance, andas detailed above with reference to the scenarios 3900, 4000, thededuplicator module 3304 generates a headline identifier for eachheadline candidate by combining headline parameters for each headlinecandidate and hashing the combined headline parameters to generate ahash code that represents the headline identifier for each headlinecandidate. The deduplicator module 3304 compares the headlineidentifiers to determine that a headline identifier for the one or moreduplicate headline candidates matches at least one other headlinecandidate, and thus represents a duplicate headline candidate.

Additionally or alternatively, duplicate headline candidates can beidentified using other techniques, such as via content comparison and/orvalue comparison between headline candidates. For instance, thededuplicator module 3304 can perform a direct comparison of headlinecontent between headline candidates, such as by comparing text content,images, and so forth, to determine if headline candidates includeduplicate content. If multiple headline candidates include a thresholdamount of duplicate content (e.g., 80% or more), the headline candidatesare identified as duplicates. In another example, values in eachheadline candidate can be parsed and compared, such as values used aspart of the Headline Formula described with reference to the scenario4000. If these values are within a threshold similarity for multipleheadline candidates (e.g., 90%), the headline candidates can beidentified as duplicates.

At 5104, duplicate headline candidates are removed from considerationfor generating a headline. The deduplicator module 3304, for instance,marks a duplicate candidate such that the duplicate candidate is notused for generating a headline for output. In at least oneimplementation where duplicate headline candidates are assigned rankingvalues, a duplicate candidate with a lower ranking value is removed andthe higher ranking candidate is retained as a headline.

While a duplicate headline may initially be removed from considerationfor generating headlines for output, a removed headline candidate may beretained for other purposes. For instance, where a user performs asearch for headlines (e.g., using the search bar 4304), a resultingheadline search may include searching available headline candidatesincluding those that are removed during deduplication.

In addition to identifying and removing duplicate headlines, similartechniques may be employed to identify and remove duplicate narratedanalytics playlists. For instance, as part of the method 2100 forgenerating narrated analytics playlists described with reference to FIG.21, the personalized analytics module 106 can compare content fromdifferent narrated analytics playlists, such as utilizing the comparisontechniques described above for comparing headline candidates. Whenduplicate narrated analytics playlists are identified, a duplicateplaylist may be removed prior to being presented to a user for playback.

Generally, by identifying and removing duplicate headline candidatesand/or playlists, system resources utilized for generating andpresenting headlines and/or playlists can be conserved. For instance,memory space and processor bandwidth utilized for generating andoutputting headlines and/or playlists can be conserved by removingduplicate headlines and/or playlists early in a headline and/or playlistgeneration process, thus avoid presenting headlines and/or playliststhat are simply duplicates of other headlines and/or playlists. Further,by avoiding outputting duplicate headlines and/or playlists, displayspace of a presenting device (e.g., the computing device 104) may beconserved by presenting headlines and/or playlists that pertain toseparate and distinct insights.

To avoid exposing a user to headlines that may include insights that arelikely known to the user and thus less likely to be useful,implementations can filter out such headlines. For instance, FIG. 52illustrates an example method 5200 for avoiding presenting headlinesthat include insights that are likely well known to a user in accordancewith one or more implementations. The method may be performed at variousstages of a headline generation process, before or after headlineranking and/or headline deduplication.

At 5202, headline candidates are compared to known insights. Thepersonalized analytics module 124, for instance, stores data identifyingknown insights, such as in the database 124. Accordingly, the headlinemodule 136 can compare content of a headline candidate (e.g., textcontent, semantic content) to instances of known insights to determineif the headline candidate pertains to similar (e.g., duplicate) subjectmatter of a known insight. Generally, a “known insight” represents aninsight pertaining to a performance metric (e.g., an outlier) that isidentified as commonly occurring, such as an insight that reoccursmultiple times over a period of time. In at least one implementation, aknown insight threshold can be defined for tagging an insight as a knowninsight, such as an insight that occurs at least x times over a timeperiod t. For instance, consider that for Coffee Co., its bestsellingproduct over the past 3 years is cappuccino. Accordingly, an insightidentifying cappuccino as the bestselling product at Coffee Co. may belabeled as a known insight, and headline candidates pertaining to thenotion of cappuccino being the bestselling product may be matched to theknown insight.

At 5204, a headline candidate is identified as matching a known insight.The headline module 136, for example, determines that a particularheadline candidate matches a known insight, such as based on matchingtext content and/or semantic content. The headline module 136 can thentag the headline candidate as corresponding to a known insight. At 5206,the headline candidate is removed from consideration for generatingheadlines. For instance, the headline module 136 filters out (e.g.,removes) the headline candidate from a set of headline candidates beingprocessed for use in generating headlines. Alternatively, a knownheadline candidate may be processed in other ways, such as by reducingits ranking value relative to other ranked headline candidates,presenting the headline candidate in a separate portion of a headlineGUI, and so forth.

Generally, by identifying headline candidates that correspond to knowninsights, system resources utilized for generating and presentingheadlines can be conserved. For instance, memory space and processorbandwidth utilized for generating and outputting headlines can beconserved by removing known headlines early in a headline generationprocess, thus avoid presenting headlines that may be of lesser interestto a user. Further, by avoiding headlines pertaining to known insights,display space of a presenting device (e.g., the computing device 104)may be conserved by presenting headlines that are likely of interest toa user.

Having described implementations for generating headlines, consider nowa discussion of dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a queryin accordance with one or more implementations. Generally, the variousimplementations described below may be combined in various ways with theimplementations described above, such as by combining and executing thedifferent systems and functionalities described throughout thisdisclosure to realize the implementations discussed below.

Dynamic Phase Generation and Load Reduction for a Query

As part of various aspects for dynamic phase generation and loadreduction for a query, FIG. 53 depicts a system 5300 including thesearch module 140, which may be implemented on the server 102, thecomputing device 104, and/or via any other suitable computingenvironment. The search module 140, for example, can be implemented aspart of the personalized analytics module 106, the client analyticsmodule 108, and/or in conjunction with a different application orservice. In at least one implementation, the search module 140 isimplemented as a standalone functionality that provides searchcapabilities for searching a variety of different data sources.

The search module 140 includes an implementation of the parser module112, the phaser module 142, the query magnifier module 114, and theinsight engine module 116. As further detailed below, these modulesinteract in various ways to perform different aspects of implementationsfor dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query.

FIG. 54 depicts a system 5400 that is operable to provide an overview oftechniques for dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a querydescribed herein. In the system 5400, the parser module 112 receives anatural language (NL) query 5402 as input. A user, for instance, entersa search phrase into a search functionality exposed by the search module140, such as a series of words in a human-understandable language (e.g.,visual and/or audible) that form a phrase and/or sentence. Whileimplementations are discussed herein in the context of English NLqueries, it is to be appreciated that the described techniques can beutilized for NL searching in a variety of different human-understandablelanguages. The parser module 112 processes the NL query 5402 to generatequery sections 5404. Generally, the query sections 5404 representlogical sections of the NL query 5402 that are generated by the parsermodule 112 by dividing the NL query 5402 into different words and/orsub-phrases that each have a particular semantic meaning thatcontributes to the NL query 5402 as a whole. The parser module 112, forexample, can implement NLP algorithms to divide the NL query 5402 intodifferent keywords, phrases, and/or tokens that each represent adifferent query section 5404.

The phaser module 142 then takes the query sections 5404 as input,determines query contexts 5406 for the query sections 5404, andgenerates search phases 5408 based on the query sections 5404 andassociated query contexts 5406. Generally, the query contexts 5406represent different search criteria for the query sections 5404. Forinstance, for a particular query section 5404, a query context 5406 canspecify criteria such as a type of data associated with the querysection 5404, a user intent for the query section, how data is to besorted, filtered, and/or grouped, a limit on a number of data records tobe searched and/or retrieved, and so forth. Accordingly, the phasermodule 142 generates the search phases 5408 based on the query sections5404 and the query contexts 5406. Generally, the number of search phases5408 generated may be less, the same, or more in number than the numberof query sections 5404. For instance, each query section 5404 may beutilized to generate a corresponding search phase 5408, multiple querysections 5404 can be combined into a single search phase 5408, and/or asingle query section 5404 can be utilized to generate multiple searchphases 5408.

The query magnifier module 114 processes the search phases 5408 togenerate a search map 5410 that specifies parameters for executing thesearch phases 5408. As part of generating the search map 5410, the querymagnifier module 114 identifies a data source for each of the searchphases 5408. In this particular example, the search phases 5408 includea search phase 5408 a, a search phase 5408 b, and a search phase 5408 n.Further, each search phase 5408 is associated with a respective sourceidentifier (ID) 5412 that specifies a data source upon which therespective search phase is to be executed. A variety of different datasources can be utilized for executing the search phases 5408, such asthe databases 124, personal data storage on the computing device 104,output from a search phase 5404, and so forth.

As part of generating the search map 5410, the query magnifier module114 also determines a search order 5414 that specifies an order in whichthe search phases 5408 are to be executed. The search order 5414, forinstance, represents data that identifies the search phases 5408 andspecifies an execution order for each search phase. Generally, thesearch order 5414 can depend on various factors, such as a type and/oravailability of a data source. For instance, in a scenario where aparticular search phase is to be executed on the output of a differentsearch phase, the search order 5414 can specify that the differentsearch phase is to be executed prior to the particular search phase.

The search map 5410 is then processed by the insight engine module 116to generate a search result 5416. The insight engine module 116, forexample, inspects the search order 5414 an executes the search phases5408 on data sources 5418 identified by the source IDs 5412 andaccording to the search order 5414. The data sources 5418 may representdifferent types of data sources, such as the databases 124, personaldata storage on the computing device 104, output from a search phase5404, and so forth.

Further, the insight engine module 116 may utilize the query contexts5406 for each of the search phases 5408 to determine criteria forexecuting the search phases 5408, such as how to retrieve and/or processdata as part of the executing the search phases 5408. The insight enginemodule 116 generates the search result 5416 based on output of thedifferent search phases 5408. The search result 5416 can take variousforms, such as a data and/or multiple data sets, text strings, datastatistics, and so forth. In at least some implementations, the searchresult 5416 can be further processed to provide output that conveys thesearch result 5416 in a form that is conducive to user understanding,such as to provide a user-consumable result to the NL query 5402.Consider, for example, the following discussion.

FIG. 55 depicts a system 5500 that is operable to generate a queryresult for a NL query. The system 5500, for instance, is implemented inconjunction with the system 5400 to generate a user-consumable resultfor the NL query 5402. In the system 5500, the story narrator module 118and the animator module 120 cooperate to generate a query result 5502that conveys the search result in a human-understandable form. Forexample, the search result 5416 is input to the story narrator module118, which processes the search result 5416 to generate a script 5504.Example functionality and operation of the story narrator module 118 isdiscussed above, such as with reference to FIG. 16. The story narratormodule 118, for instance, determines how to articulate and/or describethe search result 5416 received from the insight engine module 116, suchas what visualizations to include in the query result 5502 (e.g.,charts, graphs, images, tables), what detailed narrative descriptions toinclude, and so forth.

Generally, the scripts 5504 can include descriptions of any suitabletype of information, such as charts, narrative descriptions, storylineplots, design information, and so forth. In various implementations, thescripts 5504 indicate not only what type of information is to beincluded in the query result 5502, but also what order the informationis presented in, when information is output simultaneously (e.g.,audible output simultaneously with particular graphics), when totransition from a first piece of information to a second piece ofinformation, and so forth. This can be achieved in any suitable manner,such as by marking transition and/or trigger points with flag data,identifying a time duration for each piece of information, and so on.

The animator module 120 obtains the scripts 4104 and generates the queryresult 5502 based on the scripts 4104. Example functionality andoperation of the animator module 120 is described above, such as withreference to FIG. 17. Generally, this includes generating and/orobtaining result content 5506 from content sources 5508 for inclusion inthe query result 5502 as specified in the scripts 5504, such as visuals(text strings, images, charts, videos, animations, and so forth), audio(e.g., audio files generated based on the scripts 5504), and so on.Thus, the query result 5502 includes the result content 5506 for output,as well as instructions for outputting the content, such as contentordering and timing.

FIG. 56 depicts a scenario 5600 for outputting a query result. In thescenario 5600, the computing device 104 obtains the query result 5502from the server 102, e.g., from the search module 140 and/or thepersonalized analytics module 106 operating on the server 102. Thesearch module 140, for instance, causes the query result 5502 to becommunicated to the computing device 104, such as via data communicationover the communication cloud 128 between the communication module 126 ofthe server 102 and the communication module 134 of the computing device104.

Continuing, the client analytics module 108 leverages the user interfacemodule 130 to generate and output a user interface 5602, and theplayback module 132 outputs the query result 5502 in the user interface5602. As part of outputting the query result 5502, the result content5506 is output in the user interface 5602. Further attributes ofoutputting a query result are detailed below.

FIG. 57 depicts a system 5700 that is operable to parse a NL query intoquery sections and to generate query contexts. In the system 5700, theparser module 112 receives the NL query 5402. The parser module 112 thenprocesses the NL query 5402 to generate the query sections 5404. Asdiscussed above, for example, a user enters the NL query 5402 as aphrase and/or sentence in a human-understandable language, and theparser module 112 parses the NL query 5402 into different logicalsections represented by the query sections 5404. Generally, the querysections 5404 represent different keywords and/or phrases extracted fromthe NL query 5402. Further, the query sections 5404 may include data(e.g., metadata) that describes attributes of the individual querysections 5404, such as parts of speech (e.g., noun, verb, adjective,conjunction, etc.), section position (e.g., a position where aparticular query section 5404 occurs in the NL query 5402), etc.

In this particular example, the NL query 5402 includes query text “Countof regions with sales over $1 million.” Accordingly, the parser module112 parses the NL query 5402 to generate the query sections 5404 a, 5405b, and 5405 n, that respectively include query fragments “Count of,”“regions with sales,” and “over $1 million.” In at least oneimplementation, these different query sections 5404 represent logicaldivisions of the NL query 5402 that each have a specific semanticmeaning within the context of the NL query 5402.

Continuing, the phaser module 142 takes the query sections 5404 as inputand processes the query sections 5404 to determine query contexts 5406for the query sections. In at least some implementations, the querycontexts 5406 are based on different query context criteria that pertainto how search phases generated from the query sections 5404 are to beexecuted. Examples of such criteria that can be utilized to define thequery contexts 5406 include:

-   -   GroupBy criteria: this criteria identifies how data from a        search phase or set of search phases is to be grouped or        partitioned. When used in the context of a search phase, the        filter criteria can include fields such as:        -   grouping attribute—specifies grouping criteria for data            obtained as part of executing a search phase and/or set of            search phases, such as grouping by data type, data category            (e.g., name of database column), etc.;        -   time unit—used to specify a time unit (e.g., day, week,            month, year, etc.) to be used to aggregate data retrieved as            part of executing a search phase and/or set of search            phases. In at least some implementations, time unit can be            utilized to aggregate data in different time units than            those used to store the data in a data source.    -   Sort criteria: this criteria identifies sort order for data from        a search phase or set of search phases. When used in the context        of a search phase, the sort criteria can include fields such as:        -   order—specifies a data sort order, such as descending            values, ascending values, etc.;        -   attribute—specifies sorting criteria for data obtained as            part of executing a search phase and/or set of search            phases, such as sorting by data type, data category (e.g.,            name of database column), etc.    -   Limit criteria: this criteria specifies a limit on a number of        data records to retrieve from a search phase or set of search        phases. When used in the context of a search phase, the limit        criteria can be utilized in conjunction with the sort criteria        to provide for data sorting and limiting. The limit criteria can        include fields such as:        -   attribute—specifies limit criteria for data obtained as part            of executing a search phase and/or set of search phases,            such as limiting by data type, data category (e.g., name of            database column), etc.;        -   position—specifies a position in a set of data at which to            apply a limit, such as at topmost values (top n values),            bottommost values (bottom n values), etc.;        -   number—specifies a number of data values to be used to limit            a search phase, such as limiting to n values based on            position.    -   Filter criteria: this criteria defines a scope for data from a        search phase or set of search phases. When used in the context        of a search phase, the filter criteria can include fields such        as:        -   operator—specifies how to logically combine multiple filters            defined for a search phase or set of search phases. For            instance, operator can specify whether to utilize a union of            multiple filtered results, to utilize common results from            multiple filtered results, and so forth. operator can also            be utilized to specify whether a filter or set of filters is            to be applied before aggregating data from a data source            (prefiltering) or after aggregating data from a data source            (post filtering) as part of executing a search phase or set            of search phases;        -   operand—specifies filter details based on the section field            (discussed below), such as section name, data type to be            searched and/or filtered, and so forth;        -   values—specifies data values to be used as part of            filtering, such as particular data values to be applied by a            filter, upper and/or lower bounds for filtered data values,            and so forth;        -   unit—specifies a particular data unit to be searched and/or            filtered as part of a search phase. In at least one            implementation, unit can be used to convert a data unit            specified in an NL query to a corresponding data unit            utilized in a data source to be searched.        -   season—specifies a time period and/or multiple time periods            for which data is to be retrieved for a search phase. In at            least one implementation, season can specify multiple            discontinuous time periods (e.g., January sales for the past            three years), and executing a search phases can include            retrieving search result data for the multiple discontinuous            time periods.    -   Focus criteria: This criteria specifies a Main <focus> of an NL        query, a search phase, and/or set of search phases. In at least        some implementations, the focus criteria can be utilized to        enhance an NL query, such as to suggest relevant alternative        queries and/or additional queries.    -   Intent criteria: This criteria identifies a user interest for an        NL query, a search phase, or set of search phases. When used in        the context of a search phase, the intent criteria can include        fields such as:        -   section—identifies a section and/or sections of a data            source that utilize for executing a search phase, such as an            identifier for a column and/or row of a database;        -   aggregation method—specifies a type and/or type of            aggregation to be applied to data obtained as part of            execution of a search phase, e.g., sum, divide, subtract,            etc. In at least some implementations, different search            phases of a set of search phases can utilize different            aggregation methods;        -   modifier—used to select and/or identify specific subsections            of a data source (e.g., as identified by section) to be            searched, such as specific rows of a database;        -   growth—used to specify if growth of a specified attribute is            being requested as part of an NL query.    -   Input-data-sequencer: This criteria specifies and/or points to a        search map for executing a set of search phases for an NL query.    -   Feedback: This criteria is usable to enable dynamic improvement        over NL queries using feedback, such as suggestions for        modifications and/or alternatives to an original input NL query.        In at least one implementation, the feedback criteria can be        utilized in conjunction with the focus criteria, described        above.

While instances of criteria are described above with references tospecific fields, it is to be appreciated that the described fields canbe utilized across different instances and combinations of criteriawithin the scope of the implementations described herein.

Continuing with the system 5700, the phaser module 142 generates querycontexts 5406 a, 5406 b, and 5406 n based on the query sections 5404a-5405 n. In this particular example, the query context 5406 a includesa “sort” criteria of sales by region, the query context 5406 b includesa filter criteria of sales values over $1 million, and the query context5406 n includes an “intent” criteria with a section field of “region”and an aggregation method of “count.” These query contexts are presentedfor purpose of example, and other query contexts may be generatedalternatively or additionally to these examples.

FIG. 58 depicts a system 5800 for generating search phases based onquery contexts. The system 5800, for example, is implemented inconjunction with the systems previously described. In the system 5800,the phaser module 142 utilizes the query contexts 5406 to generate thesearch phases 5408. For instance, the search phase 5408 a is based onthe query context 5406 a, the search phase 5408 b is based on the querycontext 5406 b, and the search phase 5408 n is based on the querycontext 5406 n. The query magnifier module 114 then takes the searchphases 5408 with query contexts 5406 as input and generates the searchmap 5410, which includes various parameters for executing the searchphases 5408. The query magnifier module 114, for instance, identifiesdata sources for each of the search phases 5408 and associates eachsearch phase 5408 with a corresponding source ID 5412. In thisparticular example, the search phase 5408 a includes the source ID 5412a with identifies a data storage location upon which the search phase5408 a is to be executed. Further, the search phase 5408 b includes thesource ID 5412 b which identifies the output of search phase 5408 a as adata source for the search phase 5408 b. Further, the search phase 5408n includes the source ID 5412 n which identifies the output of searchphase 5408 b as a data source for the search phase 5408 n.

The query magnifier module 114 also generates the search order 5414which specifies an execution order for the search phases 5408. Thesearch order 5414, for instance, specifies that the search phase 5408 ais to be executed first, then the search phase 5408 b, and then thesearch phase 5408 n. In addition to identifying data sources andexecution order for the search phases 5408, the search map 5410 caninclude other relevant data, such as data for the “focus criteria”described above for identifying a primary intended focus of the NL query5402, feedback data based on the “feedback” criteria introduced above,and so forth.

FIG. 59 depicts a system 5900 for executing search phases. The system5900, for example, is implemented in conjunction with the systemspreviously described. In the system 5900, the insight engine module 116receives the search map 5410 is input and begins executing the searchphases 5408. For instance, the insight engine module 116 executes thesearch phase 5408 a on a data source 5902 identified by the source ID5412 a. In this particular example, the data source 5902 stores datathat identifies sales numbers for different regions (e.g., geographicalregions, enterprise regions, etc.), and thus the insight engine module116 executes the search phase 5408 a to extract data identifying salesnumbers by region to generate a phase result 5904 a. The insight enginemodule 116 then utilizes the phase result 5904 a as input to execute thesearch phase 5408 b, which filters the collection of sales by region tothose regions with sales of more than $1 million, which generates aphase result 5904 b. The insight engine module 116 then utilizes thephase result 5904 b as input to execute the search phase 5408 n, whichcounts the number of regions in the phase result 5904 b to generate aphase result 5904 n. The insight engine module 116 utilizes the phaseresult 5904 n to generate the search result 5416. Generally, the searchresult 5416 represents output of execution of the search phases 5408. Asdiscussed above with reference to FIG. 55, the search result 5416 can beutilized to generate various types of output to represent the queryresult 5502 for the NL query 5402.

FIG. 60 depicts a system 6000 for dynamically generating search phases.The system 6000, for instance, can be implemented in conjunction withthe systems described above. In the system 6000, the query magnifiermodule 114 receives search phases 6002 a, 6002 b with respective querycontexts 6004 a, 6004 n for an NL query 6006. Different ways forgenerating search phases and query contexts are detailed throughout thisdisclosure. The query magnifier module 114 processes the search phases6002 and generates a search map 6008 that specifies various data andinstructions for execution of the search phases 6002.

As part of processing the search phases 6002 and the query contexts6004, the query magnifier module 114 determines that an additionalsearch phase is to be added to generate a response to the NL query 6006.Accordingly, the query magnifier module 114 generates a search phase6002 n that includes a query context 6004 n. Various conditions canoccur that cause the query magnifier module 114 to determine that anadditional search phase is to be generated. For instance, the querymagnifier module 114 can determine that executing one of the searchphases 6002 a, 6002 b involves multiple different data queries (e.g.,database queries) and/or data sources, and thus is to be divided intomultiple search phases. Accordingly, the query magnifier module 114generates the search phase 6002 n with the query context 6004 n andincludes the search phase 6002 n as part of the search map 6008. Thequery magnifier module 114 also generates a search order 6010 thatspecifies an execution order for the search phases 6002. In at least oneimplementation, generating the search order 6010 includes modifying apreviously-generated search order to include the newly-generated searchphase 6002 n. The search map 6008 may then be processed and executed bythe insight engine module 116 to generate a search result for the NLquery 6006, which may then be used to generate a query result foroutput. Example details for executing search phases for generatingsearch results and query results are detailed throughout.

FIG. 61 depicts a system 6100 for generating feedback based on an NLquery. The system 6100, for instance, can be implemented in conjunctionwith the systems described above. In the system 6100, the insight enginemodule 116 receives the search map 5410 that is generated based on theNL query 5402. Various attributes of the search map 5410 are detailedabove. In addition to executing the search map 5410 to generate thesearch result 5416, the insight engine module 116 generates feedback6102 for the NL query 5402. The feedback 6102, for instance, representssuggestions for modifications of and/or alternatives to the NL query5402. As discussed above, in this example the NL query 5402 represents aquery for a “Count of regions with sales over $1 million.” Thus, thefeedback 6102 can include modifications and/or alternatives such as“Names of regions with sales over $1 million,” “Average number of storesin regions with sales over $1 million,” “Best selling product in regionswith sales over $1 million,” and so forth.

In at least some implementations, the insight engine module 116generates the feedback 6102 based on information regarding specificusers of the personalized analytics module 106, such as user searchhistory, user preferences, curated data gathered for the user, and soforth. Accordingly, the insight engine module 116 can cause the feedback6102 to be provided to other parts of the system such as the querymagnifier module 114 to enable relevant related searches to be suggestedand/or performed. For instance, the user interface module 130 can outputthe feedback 6102 as text and/or other content in the search UI 5602. Auser can then interact with the feedback 6102, such as to selectinstances of the feedback 6102 and to cause additional NL queries to beperformed based on the feedback 6102.

Now consider a number of different methods that can be performed furtherto implementations discussed herein, such as for performing aspects ofdynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query. The methods canbe performed by any suitable combination of hardware, software, and/orfirmware. In at least some embodiments, aspects of the method can beimplemented by one or more suitably configured hardware componentsand/or software modules, such as various hardware and/or softwaremodules associated with servers 102 and/or computing device 104 of FIG.1, such as various modules included in personalized analytics module 106and/or search module 140. While the methods illustrate steps in aparticular order, it is to be appreciated that any specific order orhierarchy of the steps described may be implemented. For instance, otherapproaches may be used that rearrange the ordering of these steps. Thus,the order of the steps described here may be rearranged, and theillustrated ordering of these steps is not intended to be limiting.

FIG. 62 illustrates an example method 6200 for dynamic phase generationand load reduction for a query in accordance with one or moreimplementations. At 6202, an NL query is received and parsed intomultiple logical sections. A user, for instance, inputs an NL query tothe search UI 5602 implemented by the search module 140. The parsermodule 112 then processes the NL query to parse the query into querysections that represent different logical sections of the NL query, suchas keywords and/or phrases extracted from the NL query 5402.

At 6204, query contexts are determined for the multiple logicalsections. For example, the phaser module 142 applies differentquery-related criteria to the logical sections to determine how eachlogical section is to be integrated into a search phase and/or set ofsearch phases for generating a response to the NL query. Examples ofdifferent criteria that are usable to determine query contexts aredetailed above. In at least one implementation, determining querycontexts includes mapping natural language terms and/or phrasesassociated with the multiple logical sections to logical domainrepresentations of the natural language phrases. For instance, the querycontext criteria discussed above can be represented as different logicalattributes of a logical domain, and thus different natural languageterms and/or phrases can be mapped to logical representations of thequery context criteria based on the correlation to specific instances ofthe query context criteria.

In at least one implementation, query contexts are determined at leastin part based on user-specific information, such as a user profile for aparticular user of the personalized analytics module 106. For instance,anecdotal information aggregated for a user (such as detailed above) canbe utilized to interpret the NL query and to determine the querycontexts, such as based on historical user behaviors including previousinstances of NL queries.

At 6206, multiple search phases are generated for the natural languagequery based on the multiple logical sections and the query contexts. Thephaser module 142, for example, generates a set of search phases thatare each based on a particular logical section and/or set of logicalsections, and query context(s) for the logical section(s). In at leastone implementation, individual logical sections represent subqueriesthat are derived from the NL query, and thus the search phases can begenerated to enable the subqueries to be executed. Further, the phasermodule 142 can generate the search phases independently of accessing adata source for each of the search phases. For instance, the phasermodule 142 utilizes internal phase generation logic (e.g., phasegeneration rules that utilize the query context criteria discussedabove) to generate the search phases, and without accessing and/orutilizing a data source that is external to the search module 140 and/orthe personalized analytics module 106.

At 6208, data sources for the search phases are identified. The querymagnifier module 114, for instance, processes the search phases toidentify a data source for each search phase. Various data sources areavailable for executing a search phase, such as a data storage (e.g.,local and/or remote (e.g., cloud based) storage), output from executionof a search phase, and so forth.

At 6210, an execution order is determined for each of the search phases.In at least one implementation, the execution order for a particularsearch is based on a data source for the search phase. For instance, ifa data source for a particular search phase is the output from adifferent search phase, the particular search phase can be executedsubsequently to the different search phase. Further, the execution ordercan specify that multiple search phases can be executed in parallel(e.g. concurrently), such as to increase a speed with which a set ofsearch phases are executed.

At 6212, a search map is generated that indicates the data source foreach of the search phases and the execution order for each of the searchphases. The query magnifier module 114, for example, generates thesearch map as a data that identifies individual search phases, a datasource for each search phase, and an execution order for each searchphase. At 6214, the search phases are executed based on the search mapto generate search result data. The insight engine module 116, forinstance, executes each search phase on a data source identified in thesearch map for the search phase, and according to the specifiedexecution order. Accordingly, search phase result data is obtained basedon execution of each search phase, and search phase result data frommultiple search phases is aggregated to generated search result data. Inat least one implementation, the search result data may be in a raw formthat is not conducive to user consumption, such as rows of data from adatabase, unstructured text strings, raw sets of numbers, and so forth.Thus, the search result data may be subjected to further processingbefore output for user consumption.

At 6216, content is aggregated that conveys the search result data togenerate a query result for the natural language query. The storynarrator module 118 and the animator module 120, for instance,cooperatively execute to generate the query result. In at least oneimplementation, this involves converting the search result data intocontent for user consumption, such as a text string and/or set ofnumbers in a human-understandable form (e.g., a sentence in a humanlanguage), audio content, video content, and so forth.

At 6218, the query result is output. For instance, the UI module 130executing on the computing device 104 outputs the query result, such asin the search UI 5602.

FIG. 63 illustrates an example method 6300 for adding a search phase toa set of search phases in accordance with one or more implementations.The method 6300, for instance, can be implemented in conjunction withthe method 6200. At 6302, it is determined that an additional searchphase is to be generated to enable a search result for a naturallanguage query to be generated. The query magnifier module 114, forinstance, receives a set of search phases generated by the phaser module142, and determines that an additional search phase is to be generatedand added to the set of search phases. In at least one implementation,the query magnifier module 114 determines that a particular search phaseof the set of search phases requires multiple search phases to beexecuted.

At 6304, the additional search phase is generated. For example, thequery magnifier module 114 generates an additional search phase, such asbased on additional query context to be used for generating a queryresult for an NL query. In at least one implementation, this includesdividing an existing search phase into multiple search phases. As partof generating the additional search phase, the query magnifier module114 determines a data source for the additional search phase. Forinstance, where an existing search phase is divided into a first searchphase and a second search phase, a data source for the second searchphase can be identified as output from the first search phase.

At 6306, the additional search phase is added to the set of searchphases for execution to generate search result data. The query magnifiermodule 114, for instance, adds the additional search phase to anexisting search map to generate a modified search map. Further, thequery magnifier module 114 includes a data source identifier for theadditional search phase in the modified search map, and modifies searchorder data in the search map to incorporate a search order for theadditional search phase. The modified search map can then be submittedto the insight engine module 116 for execution of the search phases togenerate a search result.

FIG. 64 illustrates an example method 6400 for generating feedback foran NL query in accordance with one or more implementations. The method6400, for instance, can be implemented in conjunction with the methodsdescribed above. At 6402, a natural language query is processed togenerate feedback pertaining to the natural language query. The insightengine module 116, for example, processes data from a search map todetermine alternatives to and/or variations on portions of an NL query.Generally, this can be performed in different ways. For instance,alternatives and/or variations on query terms and/or phrases can beidentified, such as based on NL processing techniques. Further,different instances of query contexts can be identified as additions orreplacements for existing query contexts of search phases, such asdifferent aggregation methods, filtering criteria, sorting criteria,grouping criteria, and so forth.

At 6404, the feedback is utilized to generate variations on the naturallanguage query. The query magnifier module 114, for example, utilizesthe feedback to generate different variations on the NL query, such asreplacement query terms and/or replacement queries.

At 6406, an instance of the variations on the natural language query isexecuted. For example, the variations on the NL query are presented foruser selection, and a user selects an instance of the variations. Theselected instance is then executed, such as utilizing techniques fordynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query describedherein.

FIG. 65 illustrates an example method 6500 for determining an unknownportion of an NL query in accordance with one or more implementations.The method 6500, for instance, can be implemented in conjunction withthe methods described above.

At 6502, portions of a natural language query are processed to attemptto generate search phases. The phaser module 142 and the query magnifiermodule 114, for example, cooperatively execute to generate search phasesbased on an NL query, and to generate a search map for execution of thesearch phases. Different aspects and attributes of generating searchphases and a search map are detailed above.

At 6504, an unknown portion of the natural language query is identified.Generally, different conditions can result in an unknown portion of anNL query, such as when the relationship of the portion to other portionsof the NL query cannot be determined, a data source for the portioncannot be identified and/or accessed, the portion of the NL query is notunderstood (e.g., is based on an unknown data domain), and so forth. Thephaser module 142, for example, determines that a particular querysection of a parsed NL query is not able to be correlated to aparticular defined query context. In another example, the querymagnifier module 114 determines that a data source for a particularsearch phase cannot be identified and/or is not accessible.

In yet another example, the phaser module 142 and/or the query magnifiermodule 114 determines that a context of a portion of an NL query isoutside of a known data context. For instance, data requested by theportion of the NL query can relate to a data domain that is outside of aknown data domain for the search module 140. Consider, for example, thatthe personalized analytics module 106 and/or the search module 140 areimplemented in a data domain pertaining to a product sales enterprise.Accordingly, if an NL query is received that requests “List of patientsfor Dr. Smith awaiting check-in,” the phaser module 142 may determinesthat a data domain for search terms of the NL query is not recognized.Further, the query magnifier module 114 may determine that a data sourcefor the NL query cannot be identified, such as based on data requestedby the NL query.

At 6506, a notification of the unknown portion of the natural languagequery is generated. The search module 140, for example, generates anotification that a portion of the NL query is not understood.Generally, the notification can be utilized for various purposes. Forinstance, the notification can be sent to other portions of the system(e.g., the curation engine module 110) for assistance in obtainingfurther information regarding the unknown portion of the NL query, suchas help in identifying a data source and/or a data context for theunknown portion.

The notification may additionally or alternatively be output for userconsumption, such as in the search UI 5602 presented by the searchmodule 140. The notification, for instance, can identify the portion ofthe NL query that is not understood, and can request assistance inunderstanding the portion. For example, the notification can requestthat a data source and/or data domain for the portion of the NL query beidentified. In at least one implementation, the notification can includea fillable field and/or navigable control that enables a user to provideinput to provide the requested assistance.

At 6508, assistance data is received regarding the unknown portion ofthe natural language query. Generally, the assistance data may bereceived from various entities, such as other parts of the system (e.g.,the curation engine module 110), user input to the search UI 5602,system personnel, and so forth. The assistance data can take variousforms, such as an identifier for a data source for the unknown portion,a data domain for the unknown portion, a modified version of the unknownportion (e.g., a revised NL term and/or phrase), and so forth.

At 6510, the assistance data is utilized to clarify the unknown portionof the natural language query. The assistance data, for example, can beutilized to identify a data source and/or a data domain for use ingenerating a search phase based on the unknown portion, such as toassist the phaser module 142 in generating a query context and/or asearch phase based on the unknown portion. Alternatively oradditionally, the assistance data can be utilized to modify the NL queryitself, such as to replace the unknown portion of the NL query.

At 6512, the natural language query is processed based on theclarification to the unknown portion. Generally, this can take variousforms. For instance, where the clarification involves a modificationand/or replacement of a search term of the NL query, the clarified NLquery can be reprocessed by the parser module 112 to generate a new setof query sections, which can then be processed as described throughout.Where the clarification involves an identification of a data domainand/or a data source, the phaser module 142 and/or the query magnifiermodule 114 can generate a query context, search phase, and/or datasource ID based on the clarification. Thus, the clarification can enablea modified and/or new search phase to be generated such that the systemcan further process a set of search phases to generate a search resultand a query result for the NL query, such as utilizing techniquesdescribed above.

Accordingly, techniques for dynamic phase generation and load reductionfor a query enable complex queries to be efficiently and accuratelyprocessed to generate query responses, which is not typically enabled byconventional search techniques.

Having described implementations for generating headlines, consider nowexample devices in which can be used for various implementations.

Example Devices

FIG. 66 illustrates various components of an example computing device6600, such as computing device 104 of FIG. 1, while FIG. 66 illustratesvarious components of an example server device 6700, such as one ofservers 102 of FIG. 1. Accordingly, computing device 6600 and/or serverdevice 6700 can be utilized to implement various aspects ofcontext-based testing as further described herein. In someimplementations, computing device 6600 and server device 6700 have atleast some similar components. Accordingly, for the purposes of brevity,FIGS. 66 and 67 will be described together. Similar componentsassociated with FIG. 66 will be identified as components having a namingconvention of “66XX”, and components associated with FIG. 67 will beidentified as components having a naming convention of “67XX”.Conversely, components distinct to each device will be describedseparately and after the similar components.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 includes communicationtransceivers 6602/communication transceivers 6702 that enable wired orwireless communication of device data 6604/device data 6704, such asreceived data and transmitted data. While referred to as a transceiver,it is to be appreciated that communication transceivers6602/communication transceivers 6702 can additionally include separatetransmit antennas and receive antennas without departing from the scopeof the claimed subject matter. Example communication transceiversinclude Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) radios compliant withvarious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15(Bluetooth™) standards, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) radioscompliant with any of the various IEEE 802.11 (WiFi™) standards,Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) radios for cellular telephony(3GPP-compliant), wireless metropolitan area network radios compliantwith various IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX™) standards, and wired Local AreaNetwork (LAN) Ethernet transceivers.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 may also include one or moredata input ports 6606/data input ports 6706 via which any type of data,media content, and inputs can be received, such as user-selectableinputs, messages, music, television content, recorded video content, andany other type of audio, video, or image data received from any contentor data source. Data input ports 6606/data input ports 6706 may includeUniversal Serial Bus (USB) ports, coaxial-cable ports, and other serialor parallel connectors (including internal connectors) for flash memory,Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs), Compact Disks (CDs), and the like. Thesedata-input ports may be used to couple the electronic device tocomponents, peripherals, or accessories such as keyboards, microphones,or cameras.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 of this example includesprocessor system 6608/processor system 6708 (e.g., any of applicationprocessors, microprocessors, digital-signal processors, controllers, andthe like) or a processor and memory system (e.g., implemented in asystem-on-chip), which processes computer-executable instructions tocontrol operation of the device. A processing system may be implementedat least partially in hardware, which can include components of anintegrated circuit or on-chip system, digital-signal processor,application-specific integrated circuit, field-programmable gate array,a complex programmable logic device, and other implementations insilicon and other hardware. Alternatively, or in addition, theelectronic device can be implemented with any one or combination ofsoftware, hardware, firmware, or fixed-logic circuitry that isimplemented in connection with processing and control circuits, whichare generally identified as processing and control 6610/processing andcontrol 6710. Although not shown, computing device 6600/server device6700 can include a system bus, crossbar, interlink, or data-transfersystem that couples the various components within the device. A systembus can include any one or combination of different bus structures, suchas a memory bus or memory controller, data protocol/format converter, aperipheral bus, a universal serial bus, a processor bus, or local busthat utilizes any of a variety of bus architectures.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 also includes one or morememory devices 6612/memory devices 6712 that enable data storage,examples of which include random access memory (RAM), non-volatilememory (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, EPROM, EEPROM,etc.), and a disk storage device. Memory devices 6612/memory devices6712 are implemented at least in part as a physical device that storesinformation (e.g., digital or analog values) in storage media, whichdoes not include propagating signals or waveforms. The storage media maybe implemented as any suitable types of media such as electronic,magnetic, optic, mechanical, quantum, atomic, and so on. Memory devices6612/memory devices 6712 provide data storage mechanisms to store thedevice data 6604/device data 6704, other types of information or data,and/or various device applications 6614/device applications 6714 (e.g.,software applications). For example, operating system 6616/operatingsystem 6716 can be maintained as software instructions within memorydevices 6612/memory devices 6712 and executed by processor system6608/processor system 6708.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 optionally includes audio andvideo processing system 6618/audio and video processing system 6718 thatprocesses audio data and passes through the audio and video data tooptional audio system 6620/audio system 6720. Audio system 6620/audiosystem 6720 and optional display system 6622/display system 6722 mayinclude any modules that process, display, or otherwise render audio,video, display, or image data. Display data and audio signals can becommunicated to an audio component and to a display component via aradio-frequency link, S-video link, HDMI, composite-video link,component-video link, digital video interface, analog-audio connection,or other similar communication link, such as optional media data port6624/media data port 6724. In some implementations, optional audiosystem 6620/audio system 6720 and optional display system 6622/displaysystem 6722 are external components to computing device 6600/serverdevice 6700. Alternatively, or additionally, optional audio system6620/audio system 6720 and optional display system 6622/display system6722 can be an integrated component of the example computing device6600/server device 6700, such as part of an integrated speaker and/or anintegrated display and touch interface.

In some aspects, memory devices 6612 of computing device 6600 includesclient analytics module 6626 to provide personalized analytics systemfeatures. Client analytics module 6626 can include a web browseraccessing a remote server web page, a client application that executesin conjunction with cloud-based services, a stand-alone application,and/or a client application that exchanges data with a serverapplication, to provide personalized analytics as further describedherein. Various implementations of client analytics module collectanecdotal data about user interactions with the personalized analyticssystem, which is then referenced later to aid in curating data and/orgenerating narrated analytics playlists. While client analytics module6626 is illustrated here as residing on memory devices 6612, alternateor additional implementations can be implemented in varying combinationsof software, and/or firmware.

In some aspects, memory devices 6712 of server device 6700 includespersonalized analytics module 6726 to provide personalized analytics tovarious computing devices. In one or more implementations, personalizedanalytics module 6726 is implemented to provide cloud-based services toremote devices, such as computing device 6600 of FIG. 66. Personalizedanalytics module 6726 identifies data sources to scan, curates data fromthe data sources, and performs query analyses on the curated data. Thiscan include performing multiple variations of the query analysis, andstatistically combining the information from the multiple variations asa way to identify insights as further described herein. In someimplementations, the personalized analytics system automaticallygenerates a narrated analytics playlist from the insights, where theplaylist includes images and narrative audible output. One or moreimplementations of the personalized analytics module includes aproximity platform to enable the exchange of machine-learning algorithmparameters without exposing data used to train the machine-learningalgorithms.

Computing device 6600/server device 6700 also include sensor system6628/sensor system 6728 that include and/or leverage different types andinstances of sensor for sensing different phenomena. Example types ofsensors utilized by the sensor system 6628/sensor system 6728 hardwareand/or logical sensors such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a camera,a microphone, a clock, biometric sensors, touch input sensors, positionsensors, environmental sensors (e.g., for temperature, pressure,humidity, and so on), geographical location information sensors (e.g.,Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality), and so forth. In atleast some implementations, sensor system 6628/sensor system 6728 areconfigured to detect various system and/or environmental states (e.g.,changes in state) that can be used to generate trigger events forgenerating headlines according to techniques described herein. Examplesof such states/changes in state are discussed above, such as withreference to the trigger data 3504.

In view of the many possible aspects to which the principles of thepresent discussion may be applied, it should be recognized that theimplementations described herein with respect to the drawing figures aremeant to be illustrative only and should not be taken as limiting thescope of the claims. Therefore, the techniques as described hereincontemplate all such implementations as may come within the scope of thefollowing claims and equivalents thereof.

We claim:
 1. A system comprising: a processing system; and one or morecomputer-readable storage media storing instructions that are executableby the processing system to implement: a parser module to parse anatural language query into multiple logical sections; a phaser moduleto: determine query contexts for the multiple logical sections; andgenerate a set of search phases for the natural language query based onthe logical sections and the query contexts; a query magnifier moduleto: identify a data source for each search phase of the set of searchphases; and generate a search map that indicates the data source foreach of the search phases and an execution order for each of the searchphases; an insight engine module to generate search result data byexecuting the multiple search phases based on the search map; and anarrator module and an animator module implemented cooperatively to:generate a query result for the natural language query by aggregatingcontent that conveys the search result data; and cause the query resultto be output.
 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the phaser module isimplemented to determine one or more of the query contexts based onidentifying a type of data requested by the natural language query, andwherein the phaser module is implemented to generate the set of searchphases independently of accessing the data source for each of the searchphases.
 3. The system of claim 1, wherein the query magnifier module isimplemented to specify the execution order to enable each of the searchphases to obtain input data from a respective data source such thatexecution of the search phases in the execution order generates thesearch result data to correspond to one or more of the query contexts.4. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of search phases includes afirst search phase and a second search phase, and wherein the querymagnifier module is implemented to identify a data source for the secondsearch phase as output data from the first search phase.
 5. The systemof claim 4, wherein the query magnifier module is implemented toidentify a data source for the first search phase as a query to a datastorage, wherein the query is executable to generate the output datafrom the first search phase.
 6. The system of claim 1, wherein the querymagnifier module is further implemented to: determine that an additionalsearch phase is to be generated to enable a search result for thenatural language query to be generated; generate the additional searchphase; and add the additional search phase to the set of search phasesfor execution by the insight engine module to generate the search resultdata.
 7. The system of claim 1, wherein: the insight engine module isfurther implemented to generate feedback identifying one or morevariations on the natural language query that may be utilized togenerate variations on the search result data that are pertinent to thenatural language query; and the query magnifier module is furtherimplemented to utilize the feedback to generate the variations on thenatural language query.
 8. The system of claim 1, wherein the naturallanguage query is associated with a particular user profile, and whereinat least one query context is determined based at least in part onanecdotal information associated with the user profile.
 9. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the phaser module is implemented to generate one ormore of the search phases to include criteria comprising one or more of:a grouping criteria that specifies how output data from the one or moreof the search phases is to be grouped or partitioned; a sort criteriathat specifies a sort order for output data from the one or more of thesearch phases; a limit criteria that specifies a limit on a number ofdata records to be utilized in executing the one or more of the searchphases; a filter criteria that specifies a scope of output data from theone or more of the search phases; a focus criteria that specifies asubject matter focus for executing the one or more of the search phases;an intent criteria that specifies the query intent as it pertains to theone or more of the search phases; a sequence criteria that identifiesattributes of the search map; or a feedback criteria that specifies oneor more suggested variations on the natural language query.
 10. A methodcomprising: parsing a natural language query into multiple logicalsections and determining query contexts for the multiple logicalsections; generating multiple search phases for the natural languagequery based on the multiple logical sections and the query contexts;generating a search map that indicates a data source for each of thesearch phases and an execution order for each of the search phases, thedata source for each of the search phases being selected from availabledata sources, the available data sources including a data storage andoutput from a search phase of the multiple search phases; executing themultiple search phases based on the search map to generate search resultdata; aggregating content that conveys the search result data togenerate a query result for the natural language query; and causing thequery result to be output.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein saiddetermining the query contexts comprises mapping natural languagephrases associated with the multiple logical sections to logical domainrepresentations of the natural language phrases.
 12. The method of claim10, wherein said generating the multiple search phases comprisesgenerating a first search phase to include a different aggregationmethod than a second search phase.
 13. The method of claim 10, whereinsaid generating the multiple search phases comprises generating multiplesubqueries that each correspond to a respective search phase, andwherein said executing the multiple search phases comprises executingthe multiple subqueries according to the execution order for therespective search phases.
 14. The method of claim 10, wherein saidgenerating the multiple search phases is further based on anecdotal dataassociated with a user profile that generated the natural languagequery.
 15. The method of claim 10, wherein said generating the multiplesearch phases comprises generating one or more of the search phases toinclude one or more criteria specifying how the one or more searchphases are to be executed.
 16. The method of claim 10, wherein thenatural language query requests data for multiple discontinuous timeperiods, and wherein said generating the multiple search phasescomprises generating one or more of the search phases to include afilter that identifies the multiple discontinuous time periods, andwherein said executing the one or more of the search phases comprisesretrieving search result data for the multiple discontinuous timeperiods.
 17. A method comprising: parsing a natural language query intomultiple logical sections and determining a query context for themultiple logical sections; generating multiple search phases for thenatural language query based on the multiple logical sections and thequery context, wherein said generating is independent of accessing oneor more data sources for obtaining a query result for the naturallanguage query; executing the multiple search phases on the one or moredata sources, the one or more data sources including one or more of adatabase or an output of a search phase of the multiple search phases togenerate search result data; aggregating content that conveys the searchresult data to generate the query result for the natural language query;and causing the query result to be output.
 18. The method of claim 17,wherein one or more of the search phases includes an intent querycontext that specifies intent parameters that describe a user intent ofthe natural language query.
 19. The method of claim 17, wherein one ormore of the search phases includes a filter query context that specifiesmultiple filtering criteria for filtering at least one of data from theone or more data sources prior to executing the one or more searchphases, or data that is extracted from the one or more data sourcesbased on execution of the one or more search phases, wherein the filterquery context further specifies how the multiple filtering criteria areto be logically related in conjunction with execution of the one or moresearch phases.
 20. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of thesearch phases includes a grouping query context that specifies how dataextracted from the one or more data sources based on execution of theone or more search phases is to be grouped to generate the search resultdata.